Hello, The error message means exactly what it says. The operator '-' is unary and cannot be followed by a non-numeric atomic object (a vector). Try for instance
x <- list(a=1:10, b=rnorm(5)) -x Rui Barradas Citando Pauline Laïlle <pauline.lai...@gmail.com>: > Works like a charm, thanks! Still don't know what that error message > means though. Any idea? > > 2016-09-20 20:13 GMT+02:00 <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>: >> Sorry, I've made a stupid mistake. >> It's obviously the other way around. >> >> ix <- which(rownames(data) %in% c("601", "604")) >> clean <- data[-ix, ] >> >> Rui Barradas >> >> Citando ruipbarra...@sapo.pt: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Try something like the following. >>> >>> ix <- which(c("601", "604") %in% rownames(data)) >>> clean <- data[-ix, ] >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> Rui Barradas >>> >>> Citando Pauline Laïlle <pauline.lai...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I built a dataframe with read.csv2(). Initially, row names are integers >>>> (order of answers to a survey). They are listed in the csv's first column. >>>> The import works well and my dataframe looks like I wanted it to look. >>>> >>>> Row names go as follows : >>>> [1] "6" "29" "31" "32" "52" "55" "63" "71" "72" "80" "88" "89" >>>> "91" "93" "105" "110" "111" "117" "119" "120" >>>> [21] "122" "127" "128" "133" "137" "140" "163" "165" "167" "169" "177" >>>> "178" "179" "184" "186" "192" "193" "200" "201" "228" >>>> etc. >>>> >>>> I would like to drop rows "601" & "604" to clean the dataframe. >>>> >>>> While data["601",] shows me the first row i'd like to drop, data[-"601",] >>>> returns the following : >>>> Error in -"601" : invalid argument to unary operator >>>> >>>> idem with data[c("601","604"),] and data[-c("601","604"),] >>>> >>>> It is the first time that I run into this specific error. After reading a >>>> bit about it I still don't understand what it means and how to fix it. >>>> >>>> Thanks for reading! >>>> Best, >>>> Pauline. >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>> 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.