[Rd] Subsetting the "ROW"s of an object

[Hadley Wickham]

Hi all,

Is there a better to way to subset the ROWs (in the sense of NROW) of
an vector, matrix, data frame or array than this?

subset_ROW <- function(x, i) {
  nd <- length(dim(x))
  if (nd <= 1L) {
    x[i]
  } else {
    dims <- rep(list(quote(expr = )), nd - 1L)
    do.call(`[`, c(list(quote(x), quote(i)), dims, list(drop = FALSE)))
  }
}

subset_ROW(1:10, 4:6)
#> [1] 4 5 6

str(subset_ROW(array(1:10, c(10)), 2:4))
#>  int [1:3(1d)] 2 3 4
str(subset_ROW(array(1:10, c(10, 1)), 2:4))
#>  int [1:3, 1] 2 3 4
str(subset_ROW(array(1:10, c(5, 2)), 2:4))
#>  int [1:3, 1:2] 2 3 4 7 8 9
str(subset_ROW(array(1:10, c(10, 1, 1)), 2:4))
#>  int [1:3, 1, 1] 2 3 4

subset_ROW(data.frame(x = 1:10, y = 10:1), 2:4)
#>   x y
#> 2 2 9
#> 3 3 8
#> 4 4 7

It seems like there should be a way to do this that doesn't require
generating a call with missing arguments, but I can't think of it.

Thanks!

Hadley

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