Details of *what* didn't work would be helpful, like for example error messages.
Regardless, I'd do it like this: subd <- d[, d$gene %in% c("i1","i2","i3"), ] > d gene 1 2 3 1 i1 1 6 11 2 i5 2 7 12 3 i2 3 8 13 4 i3 4 9 14 5 i1 5 10 15 > d[d$gene %in% c("i1","i2","i3"), ] gene 1 2 3 1 i1 1 6 11 3 i2 3 8 13 4 i3 4 9 14 5 i1 5 10 15 Sarah On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA <anjan.purkayas...@gmail.com> wrote: > nope, that did not work. > thanks though.1" > Anjan > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Flowers < > jonathanmflow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Try subd <- d[, "gene" == c("i1","i2","i3")] >> >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA < >> anjan.purkayas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm having a problem with a step that should be pretty simple. >>> I have a dataframe, d, with column names : gene s1 s2 s3. The column >>> "gene" >>> stores an Id; the rest of the columns store intensity data. >>> I would like to extract the rows for gene Ids i1, i2, i3 ( I know a priori >>> that those rows exist). >>> So I do this: >>> subset(d, gene %in% c(i1, i2, i3)). >>> This does not give me the required data. >>> Any ideas where I am going wrong? >>> TIA, >>> Anjan >>> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.