Re: [R] subsetting based on joint values of critera

2011-01-25 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Simon, You almost had it! Just need to move the negation outside the rest of the logic, and remove the quotes from year. Not actually tested (no data), but I think newdata<- subset(bpa, !(State=="Connecticut" & year<2010)) should do it. Best, Ista On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Simon Kiss

[R] subsetting based on joint values of critera

2011-01-25 Thread Simon Kiss
Dear colleagues, I have a dataset that looks as below. I would like to make a new dataset that excludes the cases which are joint conjunctions of particular state names and years, so Connecticut and 2010, Maryland and 2010 and Vermont and 2010. I'm trying the following subset code: newdata<- s