[R] subsetting - questions

[Muhuri, Pradip (SAMHSA/CBHSQ)]

Hi Arun,

Thank you so much for your help.

Pradip
________________________________________
From: arun [smartpink111 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 10:15 PM
To: Muhuri, Pradip (SAMHSA/CBHSQ)
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] subsetting - questions

HI,
This should work:
df[df$X1>=8,][-which(names(df)%in% c("X3","X4","X5"))]
#   X1 X2
#1   8  2
#5  10  1
#8   8  5
#9   9  4
#12  9  5
#13  9 10
#19  9  8
 df[df$X1>=8,][,!names(df)%in%drop_var]
#   X1 X2
#1   8  2
#5  10  1
#8   8  5
#9   9  4
#12  9  5
#13  9 10
#19  9  8
A.K.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Muhuri, Pradip (SAMHSA/CBHSQ)" <Pradip.Muhuri at samhsa.hhs.gov>
To: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:55 PM
Subject: [R] subsetting - questions


Hello,

I have two very basic questions (console attached):

1) What am I getting an error message for  # 5 and # 7 ?
2) How to fix the code?

I would appreciate receiving your help.

Thanks,

Pradip Muhuri



###### Reproducible Example  #####

N <- 100
set.seed(13)
df<-data.frame(matrix(sample(c(1:10),N, replace=TRUE),ncol=5))

keep_var <- c("X1", "X2")
drop_var <- c("X3", "X4", "X5")


df[df$X1>=8,] [,1:2]                   #1
df[df$X1>=8,] [,-c(3,4,5)]             #2
df[df$X1>=8,] [,c(-3,-4,-5)]           #3
df[df$X1>=8,] [,c("X1", "X2")]         #4
df[df$X1>=8,] [,-c("X3", "X4", "X5")]  #5  DOES NOT WORK
df[df$X1>=8,] [,keep_var]              #6
df[df$X1>=8,] [, !drop_var]            #7   DOES NOT WORK

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