Never mind the query regarding setting attributes. I just found the relevant section in the manual.
The only remaining question is regarding doing string comparisons in sapply argument below. Thank you. Payam I have encountered a more fundamental problem in my data set. I'm using read.csv, and all the data are imported as character. How do I do a string comparison in a line like this: M10[ !sapply(1:10, function(x)666 %in% M10[x,]), ] Alternately, how do I change the class type on a column in a data frame from character to numeric? Thank you very much. Payam [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.