That should give you back a subset of 'data' (with all its columns), for those with " E" in 'column'. Can you show an example of your data and what the desired output would be. The posting guide asks "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code" so we don't have to speculate on what you want.
On Nov 26, 2007 5:04 PM, Katherine Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sort of works. It does select the E data, but unfortunately it doesn't > select the data from the other columns; I want to select data across about 5 > columns by the factor " E" in one of the columns. It should be easy, but for > some reason it is not working. The spaces being added don't help. > > It seems to work on my non-merged data files, although the merged file > contains all the data I need. > > Thanks for the subset command though. Hadn't thought of using that. > > > > On 26-Nov-07, at 4:46 PM, jim holtman wrote: > ?subset > > > subset(data, column == " E") > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
