Hi, Try: table(as.character(non_us[,"COUNTRY"])) A.K.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:17 PM, Jeff Johnson <mrjeffto...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm running the following to get what I would expect is a subset of countries that are not equal to "US" AND COUNTRY is not in one of my validcountries values. non_us <- subset(mydf, (COUNTRY %in% validcountries) & COUNTRY != "US", select = COUNTRY, na.rm=TRUE) however, when I then do table(non_us) I get: > table(non_us) non_us AE AN AR AT AU BB BD BE BH BM BN BO BR BS CA CH CM CN CO CR CY DE DK DO EC ES 0 3 0 2 1 31 4 1 1 1 45 1 1 4 5 86 3 1 8 1 2 1 8 2 1 2 4 FI FR GB GR GU HK ID IE IL IN IO IT JM JP KH KR KY LU LV MO MX MY NG NL NO NZ PA 2 4 35 3 3 14 3 5 2 5 1 2 1 15 1 11 2 2 1 1 23 7 1 6 1 3 1 PE PG PH PR PT RO RU SA SE SG TC TH TT TW TZ US ZA 2 1 1 8 1 1 1 1 1 18 1 1 2 11 1 0 3 > Notice US appears as the second to last. I expected it to NOT appear. Do you know if I'm using incorrect syntax? Is the & symbol equivalent to AND (notice I have 2 criteria for subsetting)? Also, is COUNTRY != "US" valid syntax? I don't get errors, but then again I don't get what I expect back. Thanks in advance! -- Jeff [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.