hi all, is there a better solution to select rows from a data.frame than by iterating through the whole set and evaluating every case one by one? is there maybe something like: d <- data.frame(...) maleOver40 <- select.data.frame( d, "( sex=m or sex=M) and age > 40)") of course, i could use direct database-requests, but this would require my data to be stored in a database... thank you, till -- "I have seen things you people wouldn''t believe. Attack-ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." (Roy) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
"Till Baumgaertel" <till.baumgaertel at epost.de> writes:> hi all, > > is there a better solution to select rows from a data.frame than by iterating > through the whole set and evaluating every case one by one? > > is there maybe something like: > d <- data.frame(...) > maleOver40 <- select.data.frame( d, "( sex=m or sex=M) and age > 40)") > > of course, i could use direct database-requests, but this would require my data > to be stored in a database... > > thank you, > tillsubset(d, sex %in% c("m","M") & age > 40) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /''_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Till Baumgaertel writes: > hi all, > > is there a better solution to select rows from a data.frame than by iterating > through the whole set and evaluating every case one by one? > > is there maybe something like: > d <- data.frame(...) > maleOver40 <- select.data.frame( d, "( sex=m or sex=M) and age > 40)") > > of course, i could use direct database-requests, but this would require my data > to be stored in a database... > maleOver40 <- d[(d$sex == "m" | d$sex == "M") & d$age > 40,] > thank you, > till > > -- > "I have seen things you people wouldn''t believe. > Attack-ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. > I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the > Tannhauser gate. > All those moments will be lost in time like > tears in rain. Time to die." (Roy) > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Would subset() do what you want? for example, maleOver40 <- subset(select.data.frame, subset=(sex=="m" | sex== "M") & age > 40) Rashid Nassar On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Till Baumgaertel wrote:> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:38:09 +0200 > From: Till Baumgaertel <till.baumgaertel at epost.de> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] select cases from a data.frame or matrix > > hi all, > > is there a better solution to select rows from a data.frame than by iterating > through the whole set and evaluating every case one by one? > > is there maybe something like: > d <- data.frame(...) > maleOver40 <- select.data.frame( d, "( sex=m or sex=M) and age > 40)") > > of course, i could use direct database-requests, but this would require my data > to be stored in a database... > > thank you, > till > > -- > "I have seen things you people wouldn''t believe. > Attack-ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. > I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the > Tannhauser gate. > All those moments will be lost in time like > tears in rain. Time to die." (Roy) > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._