[R] Excluding rows from a matrix

[ben@zoo.ufl.edu]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Ernesto Jardim wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a matrix (4 x 950) and I want to remove 3 rows, where the values
> from the first column are 713, 714 and 715. I can select the rows, one
> by one, with
> 
> mat[mat$first==713,]
> mat[mat$first==714,]
> ...
> 
> but I'm unable to (i) select the 3 rows at once, (ii) select the matrix
> excluding those rows.
> 

  The hard way (if you had non-contiguous rows): using "|" (logical or)
 
  mat[mat$first==713 | mat$first==714 | mat$first==715,]

  OR

  mat[mat$first>=713 & mat$first<=715,]

  If you were going to do a lot of this you could define a "between"
function

between <- function(x,lower,upper) {
  x>=lower & x<= upper
}

  mat[between(mat$first,713,715),]

To get all the other rows use ! (not), for example

  mat[!between(mat$first,713,715),]

see the "Logical Operators" page in the R documentation.

  Ben Bolker

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