Ciao Milthinho Here it is > data yy mm dd C.531 C.542 C.558 C.565 1 2003 1 1 0.9941125 1.412338 0.8996750 2.258200 2 2003 1 2 1.7931375 2.786900 NA 3.108725 3 2003 1 3 NA 3.657775 1.7269750 2.541938 4 2003 1 4 1.0840625 1.766925 1.2313375 2.321300 5 2003 1 5 1.1558000 2.128488 0.9670375 NA # New data coppie<-c(data[4:length(data)]) # Length of original data > data[,4] [1] 0.9941125 1.7931375 NA 1.0840625 1.1558000 > length(data[,4]) [1] 5 > 5 # Right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [1] 5 > # Length of new data > coppie[1] $C.531 [1] 0.9941125 1.7931375 NA 1.0840625 1.1558000 > length(coppie[1]) [1] 1 > 1 # Why ?????????????????? Thank you for your help Paolo Italia milton ruser wrote:
Ciao Paolo, How about you show some row of your data? How many columns have your data.frame? One? By the way "data" is not a so good name for your data frame. We will be very happy to help you Kindly, Miltinho Brasile On 2/11/08, Paolo Grillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I have this problem: In my database .dta, called "data" I have five rows data<-read.dta("C:\\2_CO_mmobile_ALL_Rid.dta") # From this database I wuold like to create another coppie<-c(data[4:length(data)]) but I find this # Length of original data length(data[,4]) 5 RIGHT!! # Length of new data length(coppie[1]) 1 WHY?? Thank you all for your help Paolo Grillo ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [3]https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide [4]http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:R-help@r-project.org 3. https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help 4. http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ 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.