Try this, x="label freq1 freq2 news 54 35 fun 37 21 milk 19 7 food 3 3"
yourdata=read.table(textConnection(x),header=TRUE) attached(yourdata) flist<-c("fun","food") yourdata[label %in% flist,] I hope this helps, Jorge On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Dirkheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have loaded a dataset in R : > data = > > label freq1 freq2 > news 54 35 > fun 37 21 > milk 19 7 > food 3 3 > .... etc > > And I have a vector > flist<-c("fun","food") > > Now I want to use the vector 'flist' for selecting these values from > 'data' > so that I get the following dataset : > label freq1 freq2 > fun 37 21 > food 3 3 > > When I do 'data$label==flist[1]' I get 'F T F F', so it works for one item > in the char vector flist. > But, when I do 'data$label==flist' I get 'F F F F' while I expected 'F T F > T'. It seems that I can't perform this action with a vector of > charstrings? > > Is there an other way to do so? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/select-rows-from-data-based-on-a-vector-of-char-strings-tp16832735p16832735.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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.