Filter data.frame rows by a logical condition

Question

I want to filter rows from a data.frame based on a logical condition. Let\'s suppose that I have data frame like

   expr_value     cell_type
1           


        

Answer 1

we can use data.table library

  library(data.table)
  expr <- data.table(expr)
  expr[cell_type == "hesc"]
  expr[cell_type %in% c("hesc","fibroblast")]

or filter using %like% operator for pattern matching

 expr[cell_type %like% "hesc"|cell_type %like% "fibroblast"]