R help - Feb 2008 - deleting certain observations in a data frame

Hi, I'm wondering what the fastest way is to delete certain data points
(observations) in a data frame.
I have a vector of the indices/row.names I would like to delete. I have tried
replacing list by list, but it always complains about different lengths,
"replacing list of length a with length b" and so on.
 
Another way to think of it is that it's a generazation of na.rm I guess.
 
Thanks,
Karen
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Karen

For indices, use the minus sign: yourData[-indicesToBeDeleted,]

For rownames, negate %in%:
yourData[!rownames(yourData)%in%namesToBeDeleted,] 

HTH

Peter Alspach
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> Hi, I'm wondering what the fastest way is to delete certain 
> data points (observations) in a data frame. 
> I have a vector of the indices/row.names I would like to 
> delete. I have tried replacing list by list, but it always 
> complains about different lengths, "replacing list of length 
> a with length b" and so on.
>  
> Another way to think of it is that it's a generazation of 
> na.rm I guess.
>  
> Thanks,
> Karen
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