On 9/28/2009 12:03 PM, Raymond Danner wrote: > Dear Community, > > I have a data set with two columns, bird number and mass. Individual birds > were captured 1-13 times and weighed each time. I would like to remove > those individuals that were captured only once, so that I can assess mass > variability per bird. I¹ve tried many approaches with no success. Can > anyone recommend a way to remove individuals that were captured only once? > > Thanks, > Ray
How about something like this? DF <- data.frame(BIRD = rep(1:10, c(1,1,2,10,5,6,7,1,8,9)), MASS = rnorm(50,50,10)) DF$NOBS <- with(DF, ave(MASS, BIRD, FUN=length)) subset(DF, NOBS > 1) > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. (www.ndri.org) 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 512-0171 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ 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.