The split function does essentially this, but puts the results into a list rather than using the dangerous and messy assign function. The overall syntax is simpler as well.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Samarvir, > Assuming that you want to generate a separate data frame for each > value of "Name", > > # name of initial data frame is ssdf > for(nameval in unique(ssdf$Name)) assign(nameval,ssdf[ssdf$Name==nameval,]) > > This will produce as many data frames as there are unique values of > ssdf$Name, each named by the values it contains. > > Jim > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:57 PM, samarvir singh <samarvir1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > hello, > > > > I am cleaning some large data with 4 million observation and 7 variable. > > Of the 7 variables , 1 is name/string > > > > I want to subset data, which have same name > > > > Example- > > > > Name var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 > > aa - - - - - - > > ab > > bd > > ac > > ad > > af > > ba > > bd > > aa > > av > > > > i want to sort the data something like this > > > > aa > > aa > > all aa in a same subset > > > > and all ab in same subset > > > > every column with same name in a subset > > > > > > > > thanks in advance. > > I am new to R community. > > appreciate your help > > - Samarvir > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.