removeDictionaryEntry: Remove An Entry From A Dictionary Data.Frame
In ecology-rocks/grammaR: Context Free Grammar Story Building Helper in R

Description Usage Arguments Examples

This function searches by key or val and removes any dictionary entries associated with those values. It will process the "key" before the "val", not that that should matter. Warning: This function will remove any blank entries, if you have them.

1	removeDictionaryEntry(mydic, key = "", val = "")

`mydic`	A data.frame containing a column "key" and a column "val". "key", in particular, should be formatted with < and > surrounding any key name.
`key`	Initially left "", setting this will let the function search in the key column for any matching value to remove.
`val`	Initially left "", setting this will let the function search in the val column for any matching value to remove.

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mydic <- data.frame(key=c("<tigers>", "<tigers>", "<lions>", "<lions>"), val=c("a", "b", "c", "d"), stringsAsFactors=F)
removeDictionaryEntry(mydic, key="tigers")
removeDictionaryEntry(mydic, val="b")