?complete.cases hence, using ?which and basic indexing operations:
dat1 <- dat[ -(which(! complete.cases(dat))+1), ] (It's a nice example of what you can do with indexing in R) Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Kristi Glover <kristi.glo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi R user, > Is there any easiest way to delete the second row if the first row contains > NA? > Here is the example. A file "dat" contains 13 rows, in which there are 2 NAs. > one "NA" is in row 1 and another in row 10. Therefore, I want to delete row 2 > and row 11 (just want to delete a row of underneath of the row contains > "NA"). I have table with almost 15000 rows. The attached table is just an > example. > Your help is highly appreciated. > > I want to dat1 from dat > > dat<-structure(list(s = c(1L, 2L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, > 15L, 16L), Species.x = structure(c(NA, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 3L, 3L, 4L, NA, 5L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("Sp1", "Sp2", "Sp3", "Sp4", "Sp5"), > class = "factor"), sign.x = structure(c(NA, 1L, > 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, NA, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", "marked"), class > = "factor"), observedSite.x = structure(c(NA, 3L, 1L, > 2L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 2L, NA, 5L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("SiteA", "SiteB", > "SiteC", "SiteD", "SIteD"), class = "factor"), Time.x = structure(c(NA, > 4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 10L, 7L, 9L, 1L, NA, 2L, 6L, 8L), .Label = c("1/15/15", > "1/17/15", "2/18/15", "2/25/15", "2/27/15", "2/28/15", "3/27/15", > "3/5/15", "4/19/15", "7/3/15"), class = "factor"), Month.x = structure(c(NA, > 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, NA, 1L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("T1", > "T2", "T3", "T4"), class = "factor"), Species.y = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, > 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("Sp1", > "Sp2", "Sp3", "Sp4", "Sp5"), class = "factor"), sign.y = structure(c(2L, 1L, > 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", > "marked"), class = "factor"), observedSite.y = structure(c(1L, 3L, 1L, 2L, > 4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("SiteA", > "SiteB", "SiteC", "SiteD", "SIteD"), class = "factor"), Time.y = > structure(c(1L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 10L, 7L, 9L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 6L, 8L), .Label = > c("1/15/15", > "1/17/15", "2/18/15", "2/25/15", "2/27/15", "2/28/15", "3/27/15", "3/5/15", > "4/19/15", "7/3/15"), class = "factor"), Month.y = structure(c(1L, > 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("T1", "T2", "T3", > "T4"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("s", "Species.x", "sign.x", > "observedSite.x", "Time.x", "Month.x", "Species.y", "sign.y", > "observedSite.y", "Time.y", "Month.y"), class = "data.frame", row.names = > c(NA, -13L)) > > dat1<-structure(list(X = c(1L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 12L, 13L), s > = c(1L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 15L, 16L), > Species.x = structure(c(NA, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, NA, 5L, 5L), > .Label = c("Sp1", "Sp2", "Sp3", "Sp4", "Sp5"), class = "factor"), > sign.x = structure(c(NA, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, NA, 1L, 1L), .Label > = c("", "marked"), class = "factor"), observedSite.x = structure(c(NA, > 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 2L, NA, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("SiteA", "SiteB", > "SiteC", "SiteD"), class = "factor"), Time.x = structure(c(NA, > 4L, 2L, 3L, 9L, 6L, 8L, 1L, NA, 5L, 7L), .Label = c("1/15/15", "1/17/15", > "2/18/15", "2/27/15", "2/28/15", "3/27/15", "3/5/15", > "4/19/15", "7/3/15"), class = "factor"), Month.x = structure(c(NA, 2L, > 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, NA, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("T1", > "T2", "T3", "T4"), class = "factor"), Species.y = structure(c(1L, 1L, 2L, > 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("Sp1", > "Sp2", "Sp3", "Sp4", "Sp5"), class = "factor"), sign.y = structure(c(2L, > 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", "marked" > ), class = "factor"), observedSite.y = structure(c(1L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 3L, > 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("SiteA", > "SiteB", "SiteC", "SiteD"), class = "factor"), Time.y = structure(c(1L, > 4L, 2L, 3L, 9L, 6L, 8L, 1L, 1L, 5L, 7L), .Label = c("1/15/15", > "1/17/15", "2/18/15", "2/27/15", "2/28/15", "3/27/15", "3/5/15", > "4/19/15", "7/3/15"), class = "factor"), Month.y = structure(c(1L, > 2L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("T1", "T2", "T3", > "T4"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("X", "s", > "Species.x", "sign.x", "observedSite.x", "Time.x", "Month.x", "Species.y", > "sign.y", "observedSite.y", "Time.y", "Month.y"), class = "data.frame", > row.names = c(NA, -11L)) > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.