[R] unique/subset problem

[Weiwei Shi]

Hi,

Even you removed "many" genomes1 by setting score< -5; it is not
necessary saying you changed the uniqueness.

To check this, you can do like
p0 <- unique(dataset[dataset$score< -5, "genome1"]) # same as subset
p1 <- unique(dataset[dataset$score>= -5, "genome1"])

setdiff(p1, p0)

if the output above has NULL, then it means even though you remove
many genomes1, but it does not help changing the uniqueness.

HTH,

weiwei



On 1/25/07, lalitha viswanath <lalithaviswanath at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I am new to R programming and am using subset to
> extract part of a data as follows
>
> names(dataset) =
> c("genome1","genome2","dist","score");
> prunedrelatives <- subset(dataset, score < -5);
>
> However when I use unique to find the number of unique
> genomes now present in prunedrelatives I get results
> identical to calling unique(dataset$genome1) although
> subset has eliminated many genomes and records.
>
> I would greatly appreciate your input about using
> "unique" correctly  in this regard.
>
> Thanks
> Lalitha
>
>
>
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