On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Johannes Radinger <jradin...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hello, > > assume we have following dataframe: > > group <-c(rep("A",5),rep("B",6),rep("C",4)) > x <- c(runif(5,1,5),runif(6,1,10),runif(4,2,15)) > df <- data.frame(group,x) > > Now I want to select all cases (rows) for those groups > which have more or equal 5 cases (so I want to select > all cases of group A and B). > How can I use the indexing for such questions? > > df[??]... I think it is probably quite easy but I really > don't know how to do that at the moment. > > maybe someone can help me... >
Here are three approaches: subset(merge(df, xtabs(~ group, df)), Freq >= 5) : subset(transform(df, len = ave(x, group, FUN = length)), len >= 5) library(sqldf) sqldf('select a.* from df a join (select "group", count(*) "count" from df group by "group") using ("group") where "count" >= 5') -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.