Try: subset(df, colname == value)
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alexy Khrabrov <delivera...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every time I have to prefix a dataframe column inside the indexing brackets > with the dataframe name, e.g. > > df[df$colname==value,] > > -- I am wondering, why isn't there an R scoping rule that search starts with > the dataframe names, as if we'd said > > with(df, df[colname==value,]) > > -- wouldn't that be a reasonable default to prepend to the name search path? > > Cheers, > Alexy > > ______________________________________________ > 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.