How to delete a character object in a simple vector in R

Question

Take a long vector of names like this: names <- c("Bob", "Alice", "Ted"....) Assume there are 100 names. How can I delete just one name out of the list without knowing it's position?

Answer 1

We can use setdiff

names <- setdiff(names, "Alice")

Or use !=

names <- names[names!="Alice"]