Hi Arnaud, In that case:
Try: Df1[duplicated(Df1$Mat),] Df1[duplicated(Df1$Mat,fromLast=TRUE),] #or A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Arnaud Michel <michel.arn...@cirad.fr> To: arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> Cc: R help <r-help@r-project.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [R] delete some lines of a dataframe Thank you Arun but the values of other columns may be different !!! Michel Le 17/09/2013 20:56, arun a écrit : > Hi, > Try: > Df1[duplicated(Df1),] > Df1[duplicated(Df1,fromLast=TRUE),] > A.K. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Arnaud Michel <michel.arn...@cirad.fr> > To: R help <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:14 PM > Subject: [R] delete some lines of a dataframe > > Hi > > I have a dataframe Df1 > dput(Df1) > structure(list(Mat = c(141, 141, 157, 157, 188, 188, 232, 232, > 253, 253, 253, 254, 254, 254, 254, 256, 256, 264, 264), Prenom = c("Pierre", > "Pierre", "Jean-Claude", "Jean-Claude", "Jean-Louis", "Jean-Louis", > "Philippe", "Philippe", "Christophe", "Christophe", "Christophe", > "Dominique", "Dominique", "Dominique", "Dominique", "Pierre-Luc", > "Pierre-Luc", "Alain", "Alain"), Sexe = c("Masculin", "Masculin", > "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", > "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", > "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin", "Masculin"), > DateNais = c("23/08/1946", "23/08/1946", "11/08/1945", "11/08/1945", > "09/04/1948", "09/04/1948", "01/05/1946", "01/05/1946", "11/02/1951", > "11/02/1951", "11/02/1951", "21/10/1949", "21/10/1949", "21/10/1949", > "21/10/1949", "25/06/1946", "25/06/1946", "13/03/1949", "13/03/1949" > )), .Names = c("Mat", "Prenom", "Sexe", "DateNais"), row.names = c("207", > "208", "232", "233", "288", "289", "373", "374", "412", "413", > "414", "415", "416", "417", "418", "420", "421", "436", "437" > ), class = "data.frame") > > I want to extract of Df1 2 other dataframes : > 1) delete the first line for each values of Mat > Mat Prenom Sexe DateNais > 208 141 Pierre Masculin 23/08/1946 > 233 157 Jean-Claude Masculin 11/08/1945 > 289 188 Jean-Louis Masculin 09/04/1948 > 374 232 Philippe Masculin 01/05/1946 > 413 253 Christophe Masculin 11/02/1951 > 414 253 Christophe Masculin 11/02/1951 > 416 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 417 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 418 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 421 256 Pierre-Luc Masculin 25/06/1946 > 437 264 Alain Masculin 13/03/1949 > > 2) delete the last line for each values of Mat > Mat Prenom Sexe DateNais > 207 141 Pierre Masculin 23/08/1946 > 232 157 Jean-Claude Masculin 11/08/1945 > 288 188 Jean-Louis Masculin 09/04/1948 > 373 232 Philippe Masculin 01/05/1946 > 412 253 Christophe Masculin 11/02/1951 > 413 253 Christophe Masculin 11/02/1951 > 415 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 416 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 417 254 Dominique Masculin 21/10/1949 > 420 256 Pierre-Luc Masculin 25/06/1946 > 436 264 Alain Masculin 13/03/1949 > > Any ideas ? > > > -- Michel ARNAUD > Chargé de mission auprès du DRH > DGDRD-Drh - TA 174/04 > Av Agropolis 34398 Montpellier cedex 5 > tel : 04.67.61.75.38 > fax : 04.67.61.57.87 > port: 06.47.43.55.31 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Michel ARNAUD Chargé de mission auprès du DRH DGDRD-Drh - TA 174/04 Av Agropolis 34398 Montpellier cedex 5 tel : 04.67.61.75.38 fax : 04.67.61.57.87 port: 06.47.43.55.31 ______________________________________________ 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.