> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Katarzyna Kulma > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 4:21 AM > To: David Kulp > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R does not subset > > Jorge, thanks for your suggestions, but they give the same (empty) result: > > > RECinf<-subset(REC2, INFECTION=="Infected") > > head(RECinf) > [1] RINGNO year ccFLEDGE rec2012 binage INFECTION all.rsLD > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > but David's suggestion worked! : > > > RECinf<-REC2[REC2$INFECTION=="Infected ",] > > head(RECinf) > RINGNO year ccFLEDGE rec2012 binage INFECTION all.rsLD > 2 BX23298 Y2003 6 1 juv Infected -6.1938776 > 4 BT53646 Y2003 5 2 ad Infected -4.1938776 > 7 BT53248 Y2003 6 1 ad Infected -2.1938776 > 11 BY75833 Y2004 5 0 ad Infected -4.6574803 > 13 BX23067 Y2004 6 0 ad Infected -3.6574803 > 17 BX24240 Y2004 6 0 ad Infected 0.3425197 > > > still not sure why the subset() function didn't work, though. > > Thanks for your help! > > >
Maybe it didn't work because you still didn't have a space at the end of the value you were comparing (apparently the factor was defined with a space). with). Try the following (and notice the space at the end of "Infected ". RECinf<-subset(REC2, INFECTION=="Infected ") David's suggestion worked because you did include a space there. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA ______________________________________________ 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.
