[R] select cases from a data.frame or matrix

[Till Baumgaertel]

hi all,

is there a better solution to select rows from a data.frame than by iterating 
through the whole set and evaluating every case one by one? 

is there maybe something like:
d <- data.frame(...)
maleOver40 <- select.data.frame( d, "( sex=m or sex=M) and age > 40)")

of course, i could use direct database-requests, but this would require my data 
to be stored in a database...

thank you,
till

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