[R] How to subset() from data frame using specific rows

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Oct 4 20:58:15 CEST 2011


On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Sarah Goslee wrote:

> You can use something like this:
>
>> testdata <- c("A1", "A2", "A3", "B1", "B2", "B3")
>> grep("^A", testdata)
> [1] 1 2 3
>> grepl("^A", testdata)
> [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE

Sarah,

   I don't see how this gives me a data frame containing only those sites I
specify. I want to plot by sites-within-streams specifying which param
factor to use.

Thanks,

Rich



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