Re: [R] Matrix subsetting with rownames

2010-06-03 Thread Muppy
Hi, this is what I want to do and what I found prior to ask there, but I wanted to do that with a vector of several hundreds or thounsands of names. Because I will have to use different vectors of very big size, my main concern was how to import this vector from a textfile (so I just have to chang

Re: [R] Matrix subsetting with rownames

2010-06-02 Thread RICHARD M. HEIBERGER
> tmp <- matrix(1:24, 6, 4, dimnames=list(letters[1:6], LETTERS[1:4])) > tmp A B C D a 1 7 13 19 b 2 8 14 20 c 3 9 15 21 d 4 10 16 22 e 5 11 17 23 f 6 12 18 24 > tmp[c("a", "c", "d", "f"), ] A B C D a 1 7 13 19 c 3 9 15 21 d 4 10 16 22 f 6 12 18 24 > See ?`[` for discussion.