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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM, kayj <kjaj...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a character vector of length=700. The vector contains names and I > want to extract the names that contain the number 101. The number 101 could > be anywhere within the name. > > what is the best way to do this? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-extract-names-from-a-vector-tp25773482p25773482.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.