R is doing what you are telling it to do. You aren't assigning the
result of your indexing to a new data.frame, and so it is simply
print()ing the result. Example,
x <- 1:10
x[-1]
x
vs.
x <- 1:10
x <- x[-1]
x
Joe Trubisz wrote:> Hi...
>
> I have a rather large dataframe that I'm trying to remove rows from.
> I'm issuing the command:
>
> dtx[-which(dtx$rdate > "2008-06-16"),]
>
> and it tries to print out over 170,000 lines of output. So...I did:
>
> options(max.print=1e6)
>
> and ran it again. It worked, but when I did a:
>
> which(dtx$rdate > "2008-06-16")
>
> it tells me that all the data I thought I deleted is still there.
>
> Where am I going wrong??
>
> TIA,
> Joe
>
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