[R] Help with creating subset of a data frame

[Bert Gunter]

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Bert



Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Bhaskar Mitra <bhaskar.kolkata using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to create a subset of a data frame (df1) based on the first
> three
> unique values in the first column (v1).
>
> Here are my codes:
>
> b <- unique(df1$v1)[1:3]
> df2 <- subset(df1,df1$v1==b)
>
> df1:
> v1   v2    v3
> 1     a    b
> 1     a1   b1
> 2     a2   b2
> 2     a3   b3
> 3     a4   b4
> 3     a5   b5
> 3     a6   b6
> 4     a7   b7
> 4     a8   b8
> 4     a9   b9
> 5     a10  b10
> 5     a11  b11
> 5     a12  b12
> 5     a13  b13
>
>
> Ideally, I want my new dataframe (df2) to look something like this:
>
>
> df2:
> v1   v2    v3
> 1     a    b
> 1     a1   b1
> 2     a2   b2
> 2     a3   b3
> 3     a4   b4
> 3     a5   b5
> 3     a6   b6
>
>
>
> However, that doesn't seem to be the case and i am getting the following
> warning message:
>
> Warning message:
> In df1$v1==b :  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object
> length
>
>
> I would appreciate any help in this regard,
>
> sincerely,
> bhaskar
>
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