That probably works in this case, but it would cause grief if another car make had "ford" somewhere inside its name e.g. "bedford". Safer general practice is
Auto[Auto$name %in% c("ford", "toyota"),] or similar using subset(). -pd > On 17 Dec 2017, at 09:10 , Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > myAuto <- Auto[ grep("ford|toyota",Auto$name),] > > > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I did not care to load the packages -- small reproducible examples are >> preferable, as the posting guide suggests. >> >> But, if I have understood correctly: >> >> See, e.g. ?subset >> >> Alternatively, you can read up on indexing data frames in any good basic R >> tutorial. >> >> 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 Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 11:44 AM, AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa < >> abouelmakarim1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear All: >>> >>> I would like to create a subset data set *with only* all Ford and all >>> Toyota cars from the Auto data set in ISLR R Package. Thank you very >> much >>> in advance. >>> >>> Please use the following code to see how is the data look like. >>> >>> >>> install.packages("ISLR") >>> library(ISLR) >>> data(Auto) >>> head(Auto) >>> >>> >>> with many thanks >>> abou >>> ______________________ >>> >>> >>> *AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa, PhD* >>> >>> *Professor of Statistics* >>> >>> *Department of Mathematics and Statistics* >>> *University of Southern Maine* >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.