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...df$Var1[ i ] ); # corresponds to the "10" in the example, being the type number of the event print("denomtag "); print( denomtag ); print( "nominator: " ); print( df2[2][ df[1] == as.numeric(denomtag) ] ); #this fails .... #result would then be somthing like : denomitor / nominator } The problem is that the factor names that are extracted in 'denomtag' are not usable as index in the dataframe in the last line. I have tried converting to numeric using 'as.numeric', but that fails since this returns the index in the factor rather then the f...