[BioC] Basic R question

[Steve Lianoglou]

Since we're playing code golf, just wanted to point out:

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Brian Herb <brianherb at jhmi.edu> wrote:
> Nathalie-
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> try-
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> chr1=subset(object,object$chrom==1)
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> where object is your dataframe

The cool thing about subset is that the column names of the data.frame
you are working with are "injected" into the scope of the expression
you are using a logical subset, so instead of:

chr1 <- subset(object, object$chrom == 1)

You can do

chr1 <- subset(object, chrom == 1)

Ain't that something?

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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