[R] subset

[Felipe Carrillo]

My mistake, I don't subset like that, I totally got turnaround. "|" should do 
it, Thanks again Jorge and Joshua
 
Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA



----- Original Message ----
> From: Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com>
> To: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 1:11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] subset
> 
> Hi Felipe,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Felipe Carrillo
> <mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  Hi:
> > I always use subset the same way but now is returning 0 rows.
> > What's wrong with the way I am subsetting?
> >
> > library(ggplot2)
> > structure(list(first = c(38.2086, 43.1768, 43.146, 41.8044, 42.4232,
> > 46.3646, 38.0813, 40.0745, 40.4889, 38.6246, 40.2826, 41.6056,
> > 34.5353, 40.0768), second = c(43.3295, 42.4326, 38.8994, 37.0894,
> > 42.3218, 46.1726, 39.1206, 41.2072, 42.4874, 40.2657, 38.7766,
> > 40.8822, 42.0165, 49.2055), third = c(42.24, 42.992, 37.7419,
> > 42.3448, 41.9131, 44.385, 42.7811, 44.1963, 40.8088, 43.9634,
> > 38.7079, 38.0791, 44.3136, 39.5333)), .Names = c("first", "second",
> > "third"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -14L))
> >  head(x);str(x)
> > xmelt <- melt(x)
> >  names(xmelt) <- c("year","fatPerc")
> >   str(xmelt);xmelt
> >  # Subset to plot only the 'first' and third year
> > firstyear <- subset(xmelt,year ==' first');str(firstyear) # works
> 
> Really?  It does not for me.  I think you need to remove the space:  '
> first' to 'first'
> 
> > # two variables,,doesn't work
> > firstyear <- subset(xmelt,year ==' first' & year == 'third');str(firstyear)
> 
> Same spacing problem, also I wonder if you want | instead of &.  &
> will mean you are testing for years that are simultaneously the first
> AND ( & ) the third, rather than the first OR ( | )the third.  See
> ?Logic for the distinction (in base, if it asks).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Josh
> 
> >
> > Felipe D. Carrillo
> > Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> > Department of the Interior
> > US Fish & Wildlife Service
> > California, USA
> >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> Joshua Wiley
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> University of California, Los Angeles
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