R help - Nov 2006 - Subset and levels

Hi, I've got a very simple problem but cannot find the solution. I'm
using two data frames (say X and Y) and I want to get a subset of one according
to the different levels of a variable "code" of the other data frame.
I tried something like
Z    <-    subset(X, code==levels(Y$code))        (1)

but it does not work. I do not want to do something like
Z    <-    subset(X,code==level1 | code==level2...)

because length(levels(Y$code)) is 130. So what's wrong with (1)    ?

Thanks

Hi Florent,

A simple example with the expected output would help.  If I understood
correctly what you want, perhaps the following would work:

X[ X$code %in% levels(Y$code), ]

assuming Y$code is a factor.  If not, you can used instead unique(Y$code) in
the above.

-Christos 

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Subject: [R] Subset and levels

Hi, I've got a very simple problem but cannot find the solution. I'm
using
two data frames (say X and Y) and I want to get a subset of one according to
the different levels of a variable "code" of the other data frame. I
tried
something like
Z    <-    subset(X, code==levels(Y$code))        (1)

but it does not work. I do not want to do something like
Z    <-    subset(X,code==level1 | code==level2...)

because length(levels(Y$code)) is 130. So what's wrong with (1)    ?

Thanks

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