Is this what you want? df = data.frame('id'=c(1:100),'res'=c(1001:1100)) dfb=df[1:10,] dfc = df[df$id %in% dfb$id,]
Still not sure, but that's my best guess. Going back to your original data you can try dfb = chkPd[chkPd$PN %in% df$PN,] Hope it helps, Ista On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Sean MacEachern <sean.mace...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ista, > > I think I'm suffering long dayitis myself. You are probably right. I > don't use subset that often. I typically use brackets to subset > dataframes. Essentially what I am trying to do is take my original > dataframe (chkPd) and subset it using a smaller dataframe with some > matching PN IDs. They are only a few hundred rows different in size so > subset wouldn't be appropriate here. I'm just struggling to figure out > what's going wrong in my first example. > for instance if I try: >> df = data.frame('id'=c(1,2,3,4),'res'=c(10,10,20,20)) >> dfb=df[1:2] >> dfc = df[dfb$id,] > > I get something along the lines of what I'd expect where my new > dataframe is a subset of the original based on the matching ids I > specified in dfb$id. Is that wrong in my first example? > > Cheers, > > Sean > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sean, >> Comment in line below. >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Sean MacEachern <sean.mace...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running into a problem subsetting a data frame that I have never >>> encountered before: >>> >>>> dim(chkPd) >>> [1] 3213 6 >>> >>>> df = head(chkPd) >>>> df >>> PN WB Sire Dam MG SEX >>> 601 1001 715349 61710 61702 67 F >>> 969 1001_1 511092 616253 615037 168 F >>> 986 1002_1 511082 616253 623905 168 F >>> 667 1003 715617 61817 61441 67 F >>> 1361 1003_1 510711 635246 627321 168 F >>> 754 1004 715272 62356 61380 67 F >>> >>> >>>> dfb = chkPd[df$PN,] >>>> dfb >>> PN WB Sire Dam MG SEX >>> 1001 2114_1 510944 616294 614865 168 M >>> NA <NA> NA <NA> <NA> NA <NA> >>> NA.1 <NA> NA <NA> <NA> NA <NA> >>> 1003 1130_1 510950 616294 619694 168 F >>> NA.2 <NA> NA <NA> <NA> NA <NA> >>> 1004 2221-SHR2 510952 616294 619694 168 M >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure why I'm getting this behaviour? By sub-setting the >>> original data frame by PN I seem to be pulling out row numbers? >>> Therefore I am only getting results where PN is less than the >>> dimensions of the original data frame and of course nothing where PN >>> has _ in the id. I have also tried using subset but haven't had any >>> luck with that either. >> >> That is the documented behavior as far as I can tell. See >> >> ?"[.data.frame" >> >> Maybe my brain is going soft at the end of a long day, but I can't >> tell what you're trying to do. Can you clarify? >> >> -Ista >> >>> >>> >>>>dfb = subset(chkPd, PN==df$PN) >>> Warning message: >>> In PN == df$PN : >>> longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length >>> >>> I wasn't aware that both the larger data frame had to be a multiple of >>> the object you were sub-setting . In any case I would appreciate any >>> insight into what I may be doing wrong. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) >>> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 >>> >>> locale: >>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >>> base >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ista Zahn >> Graduate student >> University of Rochester >> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology >> http://yourpsyche.org >> > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.