Hi,

What you are after is:

datasubset <- dataset[ dataset[,3] == "text3", ]

Equivalently, you can use:

datasubset <- subset(dataset, subset = dataset[,3] == "text3")

HTH,

Francisco

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Readers,
>
> For a data set:
>
> text1,23,text2,45
> text1,23,text3,78
> text1,23,text3,56
> text1,23,text2,45
>
> The following command was entered:
>
> datasubset<-data.frame(dataset[,3]=="text3")
>
> The result of
>
> datasubset
>
> is
>
> TRUE
> TRUE
>
> The required result is
>
> text1,23,text3,78
> text1,23,text3,56
>
> What is the correct command to use please?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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