[R] How to extract names from a vector

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:

Re: [R] How to extract names from a vector

See ?grep 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

Re: [R] How to extract names from a vector

vec - 1:700 names(vec) - 700:1 names(vec)[grep(101, names(vec))] -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of kayj Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:49 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to extract names from