> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of gina patel
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:17 PM
> To: Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio Analytics)Rowe; hadley wickham
> Cc: R-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Deleting rows based on identity variable
> 
> I have another question, if I now want to remove multiple id's e.g. id=1 or 4 
> is there
> a simple OR command I can use?
> 
> I triedĀ  d2<-(d1[id != 1 | 4, ])
> 
> however this does not delete anything
> 
> PSĀ  d2<-(d1[id != 4, ]) worked to remove id=4
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gina
> 
> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] Deleting rows based on identity variable
> To: "Rowe, Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio Analytics)" <b_r...@ml.com>
> Cc: "gina patel" <ginapatel1...@yahoo.com>, R-help@r-project.org
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:48 PM
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rowe, Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio
> Analytics) <b_r...@ml.com> wrote:
> > Is this what you want:
> >> d1[which(id != 4),]
> 
> Or just
> 
> d1[id != 4, ]
> 
> Hadley
> 
> --
> http://had.co.nz/
> 

The problem is rules of precedence for evaluation.  Try

d2<-d1[!(id %in% c(1,4)), ]

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA  98504-5204
 

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