this works which.is.not.unique <- apply(x,2,function(x)ifelse(length(unique(x))==1,F,T)) x[,which.is.not.unique]
patrizio 2009/3/26 Duijvesteijn, Naomi <naomi.duijveste...@ipg.nl>: > > Hi Readers, > > > I have a question. > > > I have a large dataset and want to throw away columns that have the same > value in the column itself and I want to know which column this was. > > > For example > > > x<-data.frame(id=c(1,2,3), snp1=c("A","G", > "G"),snp2=c("G","G","G"),snp3=c("G","G","A")) > > > x > > id snp1 snp2 snp3 > > 1 1 A G G > > 2 2 G G G > > 3 3 G G A > > > Now I want to know that snp2 in monomorphic (the same value for the column) > and after I know which column it is I want to take these columns out. > > > Thanks, > > Naomi > > > > > > Disclaimer: De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht (en bijlagen) kan > vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). > Indien u dit bericht ten onrechte ontvangt, wordt u geacht de inhoud niet te > gebruiken, de afzender direct te informeren en het bericht te vernietigen. > Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten of plichten worden ontleend. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------- > > Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be confidential > and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. Should you receive this > message unintentionally, you are expected not to use the contents herein, to > notify the sender immediately and to destroy the message. No rights can be > derived from this message. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.