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Asked: 2026-05-21T10:34:12+00:00

I am working in R and I have a character vector. I would like

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I am working in R and I have a character vector. I would like to subset this vector by the first letter of the string of characters. So, for example, how can I subset the vector to return only those elements in the vector that start with the letter A?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you can use grep:

    vector = c("apple", "banana", "fox", "Actor")
vector[grep("^[aA].*", vector)]

[1] "apple" "Actor"
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