Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread Matt Borkowski
work equally as well. I was a bit confused by the relative complexity of the data frames solution, as it seems like more steps than necessary. Thanks again for the input! -Matt Again, thanks for the feedback! --- On Sun, 3/3/13, arun wrote: > From: arun > Subject: Re: [R] Help searchin

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread Matt Borkowski
an wrote: From: jim holtman Subject: Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records To: "Matt Borkowski" Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 8:00 AM Try this: dataset <- subset(dataset, grepl("(SAO |FL-15)", REC.TYPE)) On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:11

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread arun
p=FALSE])   # user  system elapsed   #0.024   0.000   0.025  table(x4$REC.TYPE) #FL-15   SAO #59669 60135 A.K. ----- Original Message - From: jim holtman To: Matt Borkowski Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2013 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [R] Help searching a

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread jim holtman
ill cut down significantly on computing >> time. Is there any truth to that? >> >> Also, I found the following solution which works for matching a single >> condition, but I couldn't quite figure out how to modify it it to search >> for both my acceptable condi

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread Jim Holtman
ble conditions... > >> testdata <- testdata[testdata$REC.TYPE == "SAO",,drop=FALSE] > > -Matt > > > > > --- On Sun, 3/3/13, jim holtman wrote: > > From: jim holtman > Subject: Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records > To

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread arun
    SAO  1.58611036 0.97475674 #20  SAO -0.42904914 0.33710578 A.K. - Original Message - From: Matt Borkowski To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2013 1:11 AM Subject: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records Let me start by saying I am rather new to R a

Re: [R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread jim holtman
Try this: dataset <- subset(dataset, grepl("(SAO |FL-15)", REC.TYPE)) On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Matt Borkowski wrote: > Let me start by saying I am rather new to R and generally consider myself to > be a novice programmer...so don't assume I know what I'm doing :) > > I have a large matr

[R] Help searching a matrix for only certain records

2013-03-03 Thread Matt Borkowski
Let me start by saying I am rather new to R and generally consider myself to be a novice programmer...so don't assume I know what I'm doing :) I have a large matrix, approximately 300,000 x 14. It's essentially a 20-year dataset of 15-minute data. However, I only need the rows where the column I