[Rd] subcripts on data frames (PR#9885)

[m.crawley at imperial.ac.uk]

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm doing something wrong.
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk/bio/research/crawley/therbook
<http://www.imperial.ac.uk/bio/research/mjcraw/therbook/index.htm>=20

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the idea is to extract a subset of the rows, sorted in declining order
of worm density, with only the maximum worm density from each vegetation
type:
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worms<-read.table("c:\\temp\\worms.txt",header=3DT)
attach(worms)
names(worms)

[1] "Field.Name"   "Area"         "Slope"        "Vegetation"
"Soil.pH"=20=20=20=20=20
[6] "Damp"         "Worm.density"

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Usinng "not duplicated" I get two rows for Meadow and none for Scrub
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worms[rev(order(Worm.density)),] [!duplicated(Vegetation),]

       Field.Name Area Slope Vegetation Soil.pH  Damp Worm.density
9     The.Orchard  1.9     0    Orchard     5.7 FALSE            9
16   Water.Meadow  3.9     0     Meadow     4.9  TRUE            8
10  Rookery.Slope  1.5     4  Grassland     5.0  TRUE            7
2  Silwood.Bottom  5.1     2     Arable     5.2 FALSE            7
4     Rush.Meadow  2.4     5     Meadow     4.9  TRUE            5

and here is the correct set of rows, but in the wrong order, using
unique
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worms[rev(order(Worm.density)),] [unique(Vegetation),]

       Field.Name Area Slope Vegetation Soil.pH  Damp Worm.density
16   Water.Meadow  3.9     0     Meadow     4.9  TRUE            8
9     The.Orchard  1.9     0    Orchard     5.7 FALSE            9
11    Garden.Wood  2.9    10      Scrub     5.2 FALSE            8
2  Silwood.Bottom  5.1     2     Arable     5.2 FALSE            7
10  Rookery.Slope  1.5     4  Grassland     5.0  TRUE            7

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Best wishes,
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Mick
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Prof  M.J. Crawley  FRS
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Imperial College London
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Berks
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UK
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