Dear all,

I have a dataset of four columns, and I wish to plot (as a scatter graph) the 
values of the third column where the values are greater than zero, and the 
fourth column. 

I tried doing this via the plot command itself, but got into a bit of a mess 
(resulting in errors!). My dataframe is called 'January':

> plot(January[3(>0):4])
Error: unexpected '>' in "plot(January[3(>"


After a few variations on this, I thought I'd try making a new object which 
includes all values from the third column of January>0 (to plot in a separate 
step) as follows:

> JanFilter <- January[3]>0

No error here. However, when I display the 'values' of JanFilter, it shows that 
instead of keeping the numerical values, the above operation simply displays 
the results of the logical test:

> head(JanFilter)
                             Value
[1,]                       FALSE
[2,]                        TRUE
[3,]                        TRUE
[4,]                        TRUE
[5,]                        TRUE
[6,]                        TRUE


This is obviously no good for plotting the numerical values on axes!

So my question is, how do I perform 'if' statements in order to filter out 
various parts of a dataset, for plotting on a graph.

Many thanks,

Steve

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