Hi
I knew I encountered it somewhere. Looking into my archives gave me
an answer of similar question by Prof.Ripley
So here you are
df[eval(parse(text=paste("c(",df2[2,"g"], ")"))),]
?eval
?parse
HTH
Petr
On 1 Jan 2006 at 23:27, Mikkel Grum wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:27:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Mikkel Grum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [R] "7:9, 12:14" in dataframe to c(7:9, 12:14)
> I want to do something like df[df$b %in% df2[i, 2], ]
> where df$b is a numeric vector and df2[i, 2] is a
> factor with
> levels like "7:9, 12:14". For example:
>
> a <- c(paste("A", 1:10, sep = ""), paste("B", 1:10,
> sep = ""))
> b <- 1:20
> df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a, b))
> df$b <- as.numeric(levels(df$b))[as.integer(df$b)]
>
> f <- c("X", "Y", "Z")
> g <- c("1:6", "7:9, 12:14", "18")
> df2 <- as.data.frame(cbind(f, g))
>
> i <- 2
> df[df$b %in% df2[i, 2], ] # or
> df[df$b %in% levels(df2)[as.integer(df2[i, 2])], ] #
> this is the closest I've got
>
> The results I want is given by
> > df[df$b %in% c(7:9, 12:14), ]
> a b
> 7 A7 7
> 8 A8 8
> 9 A9 9
> 12 B2 12
> 13 B3 13
> 14 B4 14
>
> Can it be done?
>
> Mikkel Grum
>
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