Mike, You need
subset(agoa, agoa$X.1 == "AGOA ") instead of subset(agoa, agoa$X.1 == "AGOA") (note the space after the last A in "AGOA". HTH, Jorge.- On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Mihai Nica <mihain...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I can't understand what is happening. This is the code and results: > > > agoa <- read.table(file = > "C:/Users/HTPC/Documents/_Documents/Research/WithDidia/AGOAUSImports.txt", > header = T, sep = "\t", dec = ".", na.strings = "NA", stringsAsFactors = T)# > > str(agoa); names(agoa) > > 'data.frame':109 obs. of 19 variables: > $ X : Factor w/ 39 levels "Angola ","Benin ",..: 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 > ... > $ X.1 : Factor w/ 3 levels "AGOA ","GSP ",..: 3 1 2 3 2 3 1 2 3 1 ... > $ X1996: int 2687143 0 2 18084 70 23356 0 3624 3835 0 ... > $ X1997: int 2427824 0 356492 4303 3437 18758 0 5882 930 0 ... > $ X1998: int 1205545 0 1045996 1335 2269 14010 0 5660 503 0 ... > $ X1999: int 1596052 0 828761 6042 11788 12071 0 4824 2695 0 ... > $ X2000: int 2178246 0 1378777 1026 1414 38024 0 2922 502 0 ... > $ X2001: int 464083 0 2635482 1108 178 19429 0 1221 4919 0 ... > $ X2002: int 386118 0 2728387 680 0 25014 3707 871 2862 0 ... > $ X2003: int 441647 0 3822701 602 0 7293 6343 0 788 0 ... > $ X2004: int 471009 1349411 2700750 1310 215 52840 20119 7 474 0 ... > $ X2005: int 1081143 3662774 3740324 509 4 148102 30044 7 1962 0 ... > $ X2006: int 1670746 4127605 5920870 531 24 224382 27688 27 954 6 ... > $ X2007: int 2346392 3898345 6262784 5076 0 155818 31331 304 1415 0 ... > $ X2008: int 8151345 8119377 2639949 31010 0 202938 15803 104 495 0 ... > $ X2009: int 5257573 3018965 1062246 425 16 119540 12362 8 2096 0 ... > $ X2010: int 6542843 4741574 662450 271 4 158147 11559 8 2368 2 ... > $ X2011: int 8423316 5174087 70 1957 14 276223 15479 1585 3599 2 ... > $ X2012: int 8017601 1761068 45196 2625 49 204337 10427 1757 2233 5 ... > > [1] "X" "X.1" "X1996" "X1997" "X1998" "X1999" "X2000" "X2001" > "X2002" > [10] "X2003" "X2004" "X2005" "X2006" "X2007" "X2008" "X2009" "X2010" > "X2011" > [19] "X2012" > > > agoa.AGOA <- subset(agoa, agoa$X.1 == "AGOA") > > str(agoa.AGOA) > > 'data.frame':0 obs. of 19 variables: > $ X : Factor w/ 39 levels "Angola ","Benin ",..: > $ X.1 : Factor w/ 3 levels "AGOA ","GSP ",..: > $ X1996: int > $ X1997: int > $ X1998: int > $ X1999: int > $ X2000: int > $ X2001: int > $ X2002: int > $ X2003: int > $ X2004: int > $ X2005: int > $ X2006: int > $ X2007: int > $ X2008: int > $ X2009: int > $ X2010: int > $ X2011: int > $ X2012: int > > > > > I did try : > > agoa.AGOA = agoa[X.1 == AGOA,] > > with similar results. All the help I looked over gives these as > solutions... > > mike > [[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. > > [[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.