[R] How to filter a data frame?

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Tue Jul 22 16:06:23 CEST 2008


?subset

Is this what you want? 

subset(dataset, gender="M" | age < 50) 


--- On Tue, 7/22/08, rlearner309 <unixunix99 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject: [R]  How to filter a data frame?
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> Received: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:47 AM
> I have a question about how to filter the data frame:
> Suppose my data frame has variables like gender, age,...
> How to get a subset
> of the data frame, with only female (or male) and/or age
> > 50...?  What is
> the typical syntax?  I tried several condition expressions,
> but none of them
> worked...
> 
> Thanks a lot!
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