I'm sorry about that. Second line should be attach(yourdata)
Cheers, Jorge On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try this, > > x="label freq1 freq2 > news 54 35 > fun 37 21 > milk 19 7 > food 3 3" > > yourdata=read.table(textConnection(x),header=TRUE) > attached(yourdata) > flist<-c("fun","food") > > yourdata[label %in% flist,] > > > I hope this helps, > > > Jorge > > > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Dirkheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have loaded a dataset in R : > > data = > > > > label freq1 freq2 > > news 54 35 > > fun 37 21 > > milk 19 7 > > food 3 3 > > .... etc > > > > And I have a vector > > flist<-c("fun","food") > > > > Now I want to use the vector 'flist' for selecting these values from > > 'data' > > so that I get the following dataset : > > label freq1 freq2 > > fun 37 21 > > food 3 3 > > > > When I do 'data$label==flist[1]' I get 'F T F F', so it works for one > > item > > in the char vector flist. > > But, when I do 'data$label==flist' I get 'F F F F' while I expected 'F T > > F > > T'. It seems that I can't perform this action with a vector of > > charstrings? > > > > Is there an other way to do so? > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/select-rows-from-data-based-on-a-vector-of-char-strings-tp16832735p16832735.html > > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > > > > > [[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.