Hi, This worked great:
sub <- subset(Claims, Year=="Y1") Thanks for your help Kevin On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:12 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:48 PM, kevin123 wrote: > > Hi, >> >> This is only a small portion of the Data i am working on >> I want to make a subset of this data set( Data Set=Claims) >> >> MemberID ProviderID Vendor PCP Year Specialty >> 1 42286978 8013252 172193 37796 Y1 Surgery >> 2 97903248 3316066 726296 5300 Y3 Internal >> 3 2759427 2997752 140343 91972 Y1 Internal >> 4 73570559 7053364 240043 70119 Y3 Laboratory >> >> I want to put all the rows containing Y1 into a subset. I tried this but >> it >> does not work >> >> sub <- subset(Claims, Year=Y1) >> > > You (as well , apparently, as Tal) don't seem to have learned that "=" is > an assignment function and the needed Comparison operator is "==" > > ?Comparison > > Try instead: > > sub <- subset(Claims, Year=="Y1") > > -- > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.