On Nov 17, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Sam Albers wrote:
Hello all,
I have a fairly simple data manipulation question. Say I have a
dataframe
like this:
dat <- as.data.frame(runif(7, 3, 5))
dat$cat <- factor(c("1","4","13","1","4","13","13A"))
dat
runif(7, 3, 5) cat
1 3.880020 1
2 4.062800 4
3 4.828950 13
4 4.761850 1
5 4.716962 4
6 3.868348 13
7 3.420944 13A
Under the dat$cat variable the 13A value is an analytical replicate.
For my
purposes I would like to drop all values that are not an integer
(i.e. 13A)
from the dataframe. Can anyone recommend a way to drop all rows
where the
cat value is a non-integer?
dat[!is.na(as.numeric(as.character(dat$cat))), ]
(You do get a warning about coercion to NA's but that is a good sign
since that is what we were trying to exclude in the first place.)
Sorry for the simple question and thanks in advance.
Sam
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