Works perfectly! Thanks to all who responded.
Sean On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.