You need to read up on indexing in R. What you want is logical indexing. You can use just the vectors you created (since you didn't save the data frame that you created) like this
> cycle=c(rep(1,3),rep(2,3),rep(3,3),rep(4,3)) > col=c(rep("blue",2),rep("green",2),rep("blue",2),rep("green",2),rep("blue",2),rep("green",2)) > values=c(1:12) > values[col==blue & cycle==1] Or save the data frame and return the rows that you want like this > df <- data.frame(cycle,col,values) > df[df$col==blue & df$cycle==1, ] Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Díaz Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 1:50 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Two conditions selection Hi. I have a matrix like this: cycle=c(rep(1,3),rep(2,3),rep(3,3),rep(4,3))col=c(rep("blue",2),rep("green",2),rep("blue",2),rep("green",2),rep("blue",2),rep("green",2))values=c(1:12)data.frame(cycle,col,values) # cycle col values#1 1 blue 1#2 1 blue 2#3 1 green 3#4 2 green 4#5 2 blue 5#6 2 blue 6#7 3 green 7#8 3 green 8#9 3 blue 9#10 4 blue 10#11 4 green 11#12 4 green 12 I want to select or extract values matching 2 conditions. For example: values from col "blue" and cycle "1". If I use : values[col==blue] I get all blue values. I tried using values[c(col==blue,cycle==1)] but is not working. Please help. I have a very big data matrix and I do not wanna go to excel and start cutting the data. Thanks. [[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.