Hi Luis,

thanks for the suggestion, but still nothing:

> RECinf2<-subset(REC2,  INFECTION==1)
> head(RECinf2)
[1] RINGNO    year      ccFLEDGE  rec2012   binage    INFECTION all.rsLD
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

cheers,
Kasia


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On 3 May 2013 14:13, Luis Iván Ortiz Valencia <liov2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> $ INFECTION: Factor w/ 2 levels "Infected ","Uninfected ": 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 2
>
> it is a factor variable, so it takes numeric values, for "Infected "  it
> is assigned value 1.
>
> subset(REC2,  INFECTION==1)
>
>
> 2013/5/3 Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Kasia,
>>
>> You need
>>
>> subset(REC2,  INFECTION=="Infected ")
>>
>> (note the space after "Infected").
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jorge.-
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Katarzyna Kulma
>> <katarzyna.ku...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I know there have been several requests regarding subsetting before, but
>> > none of them really helps with my problem:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to subset only infected individuals from the REC2 data.frame:
>> >
>> > > str(REC2)
>> > 'data.frame':    362 obs. of  7 variables:
>> >  $ RINGNO   : Factor w/ 370 levels "BL17546","BL17577",..: 78 81 67 41
>> 58
>> > 66 17
>> >  $ year     : Factor w/ 8 levels "Y2002","Y2003",..: 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 3
>> > ...
>> >  $ ccFLEDGE : int  6 6 6 5 6 7 6 7 6 5 ...
>> >  $ rec2012  : int  2 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 ...
>> >  $ binage   : Factor w/ 2 levels "ad","juv": 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
>> >  $ INFECTION: Factor w/ 2 levels "Infected ","Uninfected ": 2 1 2 1 2 2
>> 1 2
>> > 2 1 ...
>> >  $ all.rsLD : num  -4.62 -6.19 -3.62 -4.19 -2.62 ...
>> >
>> > using either
>> >
>> > RECinf<-REC2[which (REC2$INFECTION=="Infected"),]
>> >
>> > or
>> >
>> > RECinf<-subset(REC2,  INFECTION=="Infected")
>> >
>> > in both cases I get empty data frame (0 observations):
>> >
>> > > str(RECinf)
>> > 'data.frame':    0 obs. of  7 variables:
>> >  $ RINGNO   : Factor w/ 370 levels "BL17546","BL17577",..:
>> >  $ year     : Factor w/ 8 levels "Y2002","Y2003",..:
>> >  $ ccFLEDGE : int
>> >  $ rec2012  : int
>> >  $ binage   : Factor w/ 2 levels "ad","juv":
>> >  $ INFECTION: Factor w/ 2 levels "Infected ","Uninfected ":
>> >  $ all.rsLD : num
>> >
>> > When subsetting, R doesn't return any warning or error message.
>> Besides, I
>> > used same codes many times before and they worked perfectly well. Any
>> ideas
>> > why this case is different?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help,
>> > Kasia
>> >
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>
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