HI, Please use ?dput() to show a reproducible example. set.seed(45) dat1<- data.frame(date= format(seq(as.Date("01-01-1947",format="%m-%d-%Y"),as.Date("02-01-1947",format="%m-%d-%Y"),by=1),"%m/%d/%Y"),value=sample(1800:2400,32,replace=FALSE))
dat1[c(TRUE,(diff(dat1$value)< -100) | (diff(dat1$value)>200)),] which(!c(TRUE,(diff(dat1$value)< -100) | (diff(dat1$value)>200))) # [1] 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 29 31 dat1[which(!c(TRUE,(diff(dat1$value)< -100) | (diff(dat1$value)>200))),] A.K. I am reading a data file consisting of date and GDP as follows gdpdata <- read.table("C:/R-working/R-data/gdp-data-1947-87.txt", header=TRUE) Which results in date value 1 01/01/1947 1932.6 2 04/01/1947 1930.4 Etc. I then first difference the data using the command diff(gdpdata$value) I would like to create a transformed dataset with outliers eliminated, i.e. any value of ‘diff’ that is greater than 200 or less than -100. Further, I would like R to tell me which dates and GDP values were eliminated. Any suggestions with how to do that would be appreciated. Thanks, Darrell Bosch ______________________________________________ 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.