For a start, you are missing a quote and a parenthese on the statement; probably should be: (another quote was also missing)
n<-subset(m, select=c("X1", "X7", "X12","X15", "X22", "X26", "X31", "X34", "X39", "X44", "X51", "X58")) Not sure what you want with the rownames; an example would help and post with 'dput'. On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, A J <anxu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there and thanks in advance. > > I have a large symmetrical matrix stored in a text file. After load in R I > would like to extract the same number of columns and rows (symmetrical > submatrix) using their labels. > > I have tried this code in order to extract columns, but R console gives me > the "+" sign at the end of the code, pointing out incomplete command, so it > is not working: > > m<-read.table("C:/backup/symmetrical.csv") > > n<-subset(m, select=c("X1", "X7", "X12", X15", "X22", "X26", "X31", "X34", > "X39", "X44", "x51", "X58) > > Therefore, I have no tried with row names yet. > > Any suggestions? Sorry for the inconvenience. I have read some information > about this but always have the same problem with "+" and I do not have any > idea to follow. > > Best, > > AJ > > > > > [[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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.