Thanks Arun, Jorge,s idea worked... I can't believe I lost so much time with this...
 mike >________________________________ > From:arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> >To: Mihai Nica <mihain...@yahoo.com> >Cc: R help <r-help@r-project.org> >Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:57 PM >Subject:Re: [R] subset dataframe > > >HI, >Could you provide an example dataset? > >set.seed(15) >agoa<- data.frame(X.1=rep(c("AGOA","GSP","CST"),3),X1996= >sample(1:20000,9,replace=TRUE),X2000=sample(40:30000,9,replace=TRUE)) > str(agoa) >#'data.frame':   9 obs. of 3 variables: ># $ X.1 : Factor w/ 3 levels "AGOA","CST","GSP": 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 ># $ X1996: int 12043 3901 19330 13019 7342 19778 16304 5080 13745 ># $ X2000: int 24950 3175 19399 15292 21211 25875 25260 13445 28942 > > > subset(agoa,X.1=="AGOA") > # X.1 X1996 X2000 >#1 AGOA 12043 24950 >#4 AGOA 13019 15292 >#7 AGOA 16304 25260 >agoa[agoa$X.1=="AGOA",] > # X.1 X1996 X2000 >#1 AGOA 12043 24950 >#4 AGOA 13019 15292 >#7 AGOA 16304 25260 >A.K. > > >________________________________ >From: Mihai Nica <mihain...@yahoo.com> >To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> >Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:14 PM >Subject: [R] subset dataframe > > >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 >> >> >âI 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]]
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