Hi, I am having trouble with a large dataset I am importing from SPSS. The problem is I have to merge two datasets (which seems to be working OK) then select rows based on attributes. I have a column with either blank cells, B or E entered. I want to select all rows with E. I have other columns with numerical data which I will then do analyses on. data[column==" E"] does not work. I use " E" not "E", because levels (column) returns " " " " " B" " E".
Any help on what I am doing wrong is much appreciated. I'm getting quite stressed as I have 10 files with approx 100,000 records in each to analyse so manipulating data becomes a pain. Here is the code below, not sure it makes much sense without seeing the dataset:- chaff<-read.spss("/Users/Kat/Desktop/papers in progress/btopaper/ edited BTO data/fatnewchaff.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE) chafffat<-read.spss("/Users/Kat/Desktop/papers in progress/btopaper/ edited BTO data/fatmethods.sav") chaffmerge2<-merge(chaff, chafffat, by.x=c("RINGNO", "FAT", "FATMTD"), by.y=c("RINGNO", "FAT", "FATMTD"), all=T) attach(chaffmerge2) chaffhabfactor<-factor(chaffmerge2$HYBRID_A) levels(chaffhabfactor) Echaff<-chaffmerge2[FATMTD==" E",] attach(Echaff) names(Echaff) plotmeans(Echaff$FAT~Echaff$HYBRID_A) chaffFat<-factor(Echaff$FAT) levels(chaffFat) chaffzeros<-table(chaffFat, Echaff$HYBRID_A) chaffzeros **** chaffFat 1 2 3 4 5 0 261 354 345 1003 235 1 38 23 17 6 2 2 19 0 4 2 0 3 7 0 1 0 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 5 145 34 123 100 60 8 0 0 0 0 0 10 202 141 248 279 101 15 73 12 79 51 9 20 84 60 64 133 19 25 14 6 20 22 3 30 30 25 22 54 13 35 3 0 7 4 4 40 7 10 2 12 5 45 2 0 3 1 0 50 1 0 0 2 1 60 0 1 0 1 1 **** The 1,2,3,4,5, values of chaffFat above correspond to "B" which should have been removed!!!! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.