dplyr filter on a vector rather than a dataframe in R

Question

This seems like a simple question, but I have not come across a clean solution for it yet. I have a vector in R and I want to remove certain elements from the vector, however I

Answer 1

Pretty sure dplyr only really operates on data.frames. Here's a two line example coercing the vector to a data.frame and back.

myDf = data.frame(states = gsub(" ", "-", tolower(state.name))) %>% filter(states != "alaska")
all_states = myDf$states

or a gross one liner:

all_states = (data.frame(states = gsub(" ", "-", tolower(state.name))) %>% filter(states != "alaska"))$states