Greetings, all.
I'm fiddling with some text manipulation in R, and I've found
something which feels counterintuitive to my PERL-trained senses; I'm
hoping that I can glean new R intuition about the situation.
Here's an example, as concise as I could make it.
trg<-c("this","that")
# these two work as I'd expected.
if ( grep("this",trg) ) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
if ( grep("that",trg) ) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
# These all fail with error 'argument is of length zero'
# if ( grep("other",trg) ) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
# if ( grep("other",trg) == TRUE) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
# if ( grep("other",trg) == 1) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
# This says that the result is a numeric zero. Shouldn't I be able
# to "if" on that, or at least compare it with a number?
grep("other", trg)
# I eventually decided this worked, but felt odd to me.
if ( any(grep("other",trg))) { cat("Y\n") } else { cat("N\n") }
So, is the 'Wrap it in an any()' just normal R practice, and I'm too
new to know it? Is there a more fundamental dumb move I'm making?
- Allen S. Rout
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