[R] How to delete rows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

To delete duplicate rows, use unique(TAB1): see its help page.

It looks to me as if the names are missing values NA and *not* start with 
NA.  If so, you want to use

TAB1[!is.na(TAB1$Name), ]

Otherwise, perhaps TAB1[substr(TAB1$Name, 1, 2) == "NA", ].

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Michael Graber wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> I am very new to R, so maybe my question is very easy to answer.
> I have the following table:
> TAB1<-data.frame(Name,Number), "Name" and "Number" are all character
> strings,
> it looks like this:
>
> Name  Number
>
> ab      2
>
> ab      2
>
> NA     15
>
> NA     15
>
> NA     15
>
> cd      3
>
> ef      1
>
> NA     15
>
> NA     15
>
> gh     15
>
> gh     15
>
> I want to delete all the rows which begin with "NA"
> and all the rows where names are duplicates
> (for example the second row).
> I have tried this, but I only get numbers:
>
> for (i in 1:ZeileMax )  {if ( TAB1[[1]] [i] != "NA" )
> {cat(TAB1[[1]][i],file = "Name.txt",fill= TRUE,append = TRUE ,sep =
> "");cat(TAB1[[2]][i], file="Number.txt", fill=TRUE,append=TRUE, sep="")}}
> Name<-readLines("Name.txt")
> Number<-readLines("Number.txt")
> TAB<-data.frame(Name,Number)
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Michael Graber
>
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