I'm not sure I completely understand your question. Would using grepl() instead of grep() let you do what you want?
---------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ed Siefker Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:03 PM To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: [R] inverse of which() Given a vector of booleans, chich() will return indices that are TRUE. Given a vector of indices, how can I get a vector of booleans? My intent is to do logical operations on the output of grep(). Maybe there's a better way to do this? Thanks -Ed ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.