Re: [R] How to pass selection criteria in a function

On Dec 1, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, cmccar...@bmcc.cuny.edu wrote: Hi, Suppose I have the following data name score Abel88 Baker 54 Charlie77 stored a table called myData. I want to write a function that will create a table which i

Re: [R] How to pass selection criteria in a function

Thank you all for your very fast replies. I tried Henrique's method (see one of the above posts) , and it works perfectly! Thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-pass-selection-criteria-in-a-function-tp3067765p3067829.html Sent from the R help mailin

Re: [R] How to pass selection criteria in a function

Try this: newTable <- function(data, criteria) { do.call(subset, list(data, substitute(criteria))) } On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:56 PM, wrote: > Hi, > Suppose I have the following data > > name score > Abel88 > Baker 54 > Charlie77 > > stored a table called myData. > > >

Re: [R] How to pass selection criteria in a function

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, cmccar...@bmcc.cuny.edu wrote: Hi, Suppose I have the following data name score Abel??? 88 Baker? 54 Charlie??? 77 stored a? table called myData. I want to write a function that will create a table which is a subset of myData containing those have a score > 7

[R] How to pass selection criteria in a function

Hi, Suppose I have the following data name score Abel    88 Baker  54 Charlie    77 stored a  table called myData. I want to write a function that will create a table which is a subset of myData containing those have a score > 75. I know I can do this with the following command: