I may have prematurely excited... I ended up using the split method since my family indicators are alphanumeric so my issue is as follows.
I'm applying this to different subsets of my main data set. The subsets do not contain all families. When I run the method on one of my subsets I get back a table that includes ALL the families. Those that weren't in the subset to which I applied the method have <NA> for all of the fields. If I export one of the subsets, restart R (to be certain nothing of my original playtime is left) and import only the subset, the method works perfectly. The addition of the previously removed rows seems to happen at the 'split' step. Is there something I'm doing incorrectly? I can't seem to figure out how to convince R not to look at my original data frame when deciding how many families there are. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Count-of-rows-while-looping-through-data-tp3547949p3555752.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.