This for example could work

df <- data.frame(x = seq(1:10), y = rep(c("a","b"),5))
df
df$x[df$y %in% "a"]

Scott


On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 4:01 AM, tornanddesperate wrote: 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I couldn't find the solution to what must be quite a simple problem. Maybe
> you can help?
> 
>  treatment session period stage wage_accepted market
> 1 1 1 1 1 25 public
> 2 1 1 1 1 19 privat
> 3 1 1 1 1 15 public
> 4 1 1 1 2 32 public
> 5 1 1 1 2 13 privat
> 
> > From this table, I'd like to choose only those values in the column
> "wage_accepted" that have the value "public" in the column "market". How can
> I do this? 
> 
> Is there a good general help site for R that would explain basic table
> manipulations such as this?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help
> 
> 
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