Hi,
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:11 PM, JulioSergio <julioser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I read a table as follows:
>
>> F1 <- read.table("Rtext3.txt")
>> F1
> Price Floor Area Rooms Age Cent.heat
> a 52.00 111 830 5 6.2 no
> b 54.75 128 710 5 7.5 no
> c 57.50 101 1000 5 4.2 no
> d 57.50 131 690 6 8.8 no
> e 59.75 93 900 5 1.9 yes
>
> As it is seen, the rows have a name. However I don't know how to access a
> particular element from that name, for instance,
>
>> attach(F1)
That's your biggest problem. Don't attach your dataframe.
>> Price
> [1] 52.00 54.75 57.50 57.50 59.75
>> Price[["a"]]
> Error en Price[["a"]] : subíndice fuera de los límites
>> Price$a
> Error en Price$a : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
>> Price['a']
> [1] NA
>> Price["a"]
> [1] NA
>
> If I cannot access particular elements of the frame components by the row
> names,
> is there any use of having the rows named?
Sure you can. It works just like any other indexing of data frames,
with the caveat that a data frame is really a list with the columns as
elements, so there are indexing options not available for rows.
Since you didn't provide any data, here's a toy example:
> test <- data.frame(X=1:3, Y=4:6, Z=7:9)
> rownames(test) <- c("a", "b", "c")
> test
X Y Z
a 1 4 7
b 2 5 8
c 3 6 9
> test["a",]
X Y Z
a 1 4 7
> test["a", "Y"]
[1] 4
> test["a",][3]
Z
a 7
Sarah
> Thanks,
>
> Sergio.
>
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Sarah Goslee
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