[R] R loop
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Tue Feb 7 08:03:04 CET 2006
Hi
On 6 Feb 2006 at 15:57, ivo welch wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:57:30 -0500
From: ivo welch <ivowel at gmail.com>
To: Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov>
Copies to: piet.vanremortel at gmail.com, r-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R] R loop
> > > data[ data$a == "name2" ] # does not work and gives a weird
> > > result, yuck
> >
> > data[data$a=="name2",]
> >
>
> sorry about this. I believe a few versions back, one could not subset
> data frames, so I did not even check what I wrote. Works now.
It depends on what you consider few versions back. I started with R
vesion 1.2.0 about 10 years ago and I believe that data frame
subsetting was done in **very** similar manner as it is performed
now.
Cheers
Petr
>
> > Look at ?order.
>
> I know. This is why I suggested only that we need a wrapper that
> plugs an order() functionality into the sort() function (which
> fortunately points in its docs to order)---but novices would find the
> sort syntax easier.
>
> regards,
>
> /iaw
>
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