Thank you so much! jonathan
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:47:57 -0800 > From: spec...@stat.berkeley.edu > To: jonathan.hughes...@live.com > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] filtering a dataframe with a vector of rownames > > Jonathan - > To make your approach work, you'd need to replace == > with %in%: > > > rows.to.keep<-which(rownames(data) %in% names.to.keep) > [1] 1 3 4 > > But to answer you're original question, remember that the > point of rownames is that they can be used to index a > data frame: > > > data[rows.to.keep,] > [,1] [,2] > a 1 2 > c 3 4 > d 4 5 > > > - Phil Spector > Statistical Computing Facility > Department of Statistics > UC Berkeley > spec...@stat.berkeley.edu > > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Jonathan Hughes wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Here's my problem. I have a large data frame and a vector with some of its > > row names. I'd like to have a new data frame only with those rows that > > match this vector of row names. > > > > I tried this: > > > > data<-cbind(c(1,2,3,4,5,6),c(2,3,4,5,6,7)) > > rownames(data)<-c("a", "b", "c","d","e","f") > > names.to.keep<-c("a", "c", "d") > > rows.to.keep<-which(rownames(data)==names.to.keep) > > > > But it didn't work. Any suggestions? > > > > thanks a lot. > > > > Jonathan. > > > > [[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. > > [[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.