Hi,
Not sure I understand you correctly.
I found it easier to index using number than replace it by lengthy column names.
You could do it similar to the one below.

matNew<-matrix(dat3[rowSums(dat3[c("B_MW_EEsDue1","C_MW_EEsDue2")])!=dat3["D_MW_EEsDueTotal"],1],ncol=1,dimnames=list(NULL,"MW_EEsDue_ERRORS"))

 matNew
#     MW_EEsDue_ERRORS
#[1,]             1882
#[2,]             1884
#[3,]             1885

If you have very large dataset, you could also check ?data.table().


library(data.table)
dt3<- data.table(dat3)
dtNew<-subset(dt3[D_MW_EEsDueTotal!=B_MW_EEsDue1+C_MW_EEsDue2],select=1)
 dtNew
#   A_CaseID
#1:     1882
#2:     1884
#3:     1885


#Some speed comparisons:
set.seed(1254)
datTest<- data.frame(A=sample(1000:15000,1e7,replace=TRUE),B= 
sample(1:10,1e7,replace=TRUE),C=sample(5:15,1e7,replace=TRUE),D=sample(5:25,1e7,replace=TRUE))

system.time(res1<- data.frame(MW_EEsDue_ERRORS=datTest[datTest[[4]] != 
datTest[[2]]+datTest[[3]],][[1]]))
# user  system elapsed 
#  2.256   0.000   2.145 

system.time(mat1<-matrix(datTest[rowSums(datTest[,2:3])!=datTest[,4],1],ncol=1,dimnames=list(NULL,"MW_EEsDue_ERRORS")))
 #  user  system elapsed 
 # 0.756   0.088   0.849 

system.time(res2<- 
data.frame(MW_EEsDue_ERRORS=datTest[addmargins(as.matrix(datTest[,2:3]),2)[,3]!=datTest[,4],1]))
#   user  system elapsed 
#115.740   0.000 105.778 

dtTest<- data.table(datTest)
system.time(res3<- subset(dtTest[D!=B+C],select=1))
 # user  system elapsed 
 # 0.508   0.000   0.477 

identical(res1,res2)
#[1] TRUE
setnames(res3,"A","MW_EEsDue_ERRORS")
 identical(res1,as.data.frame(res3))
#[1] TRUE
A.K.




----- Original Message -----
From: bcrombie <bcrom...@utk.edu>
To: r-help@r-project.org
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Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [R] create new matrix from user-defined function

Dan and Arun, thank you very much for your replies.  They are both very helpful 
and I love to get different versions of an answer so I can learn more R code.  
You both used indexing to refer to the columns needed in the function, but 
since my real data frame will be much larger I'm assuming I can replace the 
index numbers with the names of the columns in quotes instead?   I'll try this 
on my own if you're busy with other forum questions.  Thanks, again.

From: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) [via R] 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 5:46 PM
To: Crombie, Burnette N
Subject: Re: create new matrix from user-defined function

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> project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-%20%0b%3e%20project.org>] On Behalf Of 
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> Subject: [R] create new matrix from user-defined function
>
> #Let's say I have the following data set:
>
> dat3 = data.frame(A_CaseID = c(1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885),
>                   B_MW_EEsDue1 = c(2, 2, 1, 4, 6),
>                   C_MW_EEsDue2 = c(5, 5, 4, 1, 6),
>                   D_MW_EEsDueTotal = c(7, 9, 5, 6, 112))
> dat3
> # A_CaseID B_MW_EEsDue1 C_MW_EEsDue2 D_MW_EEsDueTotal
> # 1     1881            2            5                7
> # 2     1882            2            5                9
> # 3     1883            1            4                5
> # 4     1884            4            1                6
> # 5     1885            6            6              112
>
> # I want to:
> #CREATE A NEW 1-COLUMN MATRIX (of unknown #rows) LISTING ONLY "A"'s
> WHERE "D
> != B + C"
> #THIS COLUMN CAN BE LABELED "MW_EEsDue_ERRORS", and output for this
> example
> should be:
>
> # MW_EEsDue_ERRORS
> # 1 1882
> # 2 1884
> # 3 1885
>
> #What is the best way to do this?  Thanks for your time.  BNC
>
>

Here is one option, there are many others.  Only you can decide what is "best".

data.frame(MW_EEsDue_ERRORS=dat3[dat3[[4]] != dat3[[2]]+dat3[[3]],][[1]])


Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA 98504-5204

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