[R] removing rows from matrix

[Richard.Cotton at hsl.gov.uk]

>  Hi, I have a problem regarding matrix handeling. I am working with 
> a serie of matrixes containing several columns. Now I would like to 
> delete those rows of the matrixes,that in one of the columns contain
> values less than 50 or greater than 1000.

Try this: 
m <- matrix(runif(150, 0, 1050), nrow=10); m
cols.to.remove <- apply(m, 2, function(x) any(x < 50 | x > 1000))
m[,!cols.to.remove]

It's well worth learning how to use apply, and its variants (tapply, 
sapply etc.); they come in very useful.

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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