[R] How to duplicate rows in dataframe?

[cstrato]

Thank you all (Olaf Mersmann, Berton Gunter, James Holtman,
Peter Aspach) for your fast reply.

The solutions:
    df[match(x,ix),]   and
    df[c(1,2,2,3,3),]
are exactly what I was looking for.

Best regards
Christian

Berton Gunter wrote:

> ?match
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> ix<-df$index ## just for clarity
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> df[match(x,ix),]
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
>>[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of cstrato
>>Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:03 AM
>>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: [R] How to duplicate rows in dataframe?
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>>Dear all:
>>
>>I have the following (simple?) problem:
>>Consider a dataframe where the first column contains
>>integers used as index, e.g.
>>    index
>>     24
>>     13
>>     46
>>     32
>>
>>Now I have the following vector used to sort the dataframe:
>>    x <- c(13,24,32,46)
>>Sorting the dataframe can be done by using order.
>>
>>However consider the following vector:
>>    x <- c(13,32,13,24,46,24,24)
>>Now I want to get the dataframe in the order of the rows
>>defined in x, i.e. the dataframe contains duplicate rows.
>>One way to achieve this would be to use rbind in a for-loop.
>>
>>My question is:
>>Is there an easier and - more important - faster way to
>>obtain the dataframe as defined in x?
>>
>>Thank you in advance.
>>Best regards
>>Christian
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