[R] subsetting data-frame by vector of characters
Chuck Cleland
ccleland at optonline.net
Fri Jun 13 16:20:49 CEST 2008
On 6/13/2008 10:07 AM, james perkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a very simple problem but I can't think how to solve it without
> using a for loop and creating a large logical vector. However given the
> nature of the problem I am sure there is a "1-liner" that could do the
> same thing much more efficiently.
>
> bascially I have a dataframe with characters in, eg
>
> >names.and.numbers
>
> (index) Name Fave.Number
> 1 John 7
> 2 Tony 12
> 3 Phil 14
> 4 Adam 22
> 5 Robert 23
>
>
> Now, imagine I have a vector of names, ie:
>
> >names = c("John,Phil,Robert")
>
> All I want to do is get the subset of the dataframe which corresponds to
> the names in the vector "Names". IE
>
> (index) Name Fave.Number
> 1 John 7
> 2 Phil 14
> 3 Robert 23
>
> Sorry, I know its trivial but I'm new to R and its hard to start
> thinking in R, as I say, I've written a complicated for loop using
> intersect and creating a logical table, but this is very long winded!!!
How about this:
subset(names.and.numbers, Name %in% mynames)
where mynames is the vector of names you want?
?subset
?is.element
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
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