See help(grepl) so using built in data frame CO2 this gets rows whose Plant column start with Qn:
subset(CO2, grepl("^Qn", Plant)) On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Jean-Baptiste Combes <jeanbaptiste.combes.a...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I use R 2.10, and I am new in R (I used to use SAS and lately Stata), I am > using XP. > > I have a data which has a data.frame format called x.df (read from a csv > file). I want to take from this data observations for which the variable > "Code" starts with an "R". I took all the Code and put them into a vector > vec<-grep("R[A-Z][A-Z]",x.df$Code,value=TRUE) > > Then I created a function that is supposed to take all the lines in the my > data x.df for which "Code" equals one value of "vec". See the code below > where I created a loop to do that. > >> myfunc<-function(data,var2,var1) > + { > + i=1 > + while (i<632){ > + line<-subset(data,var2==var1[i]) > + if (i==1){ > + df<-line > + df<-data.frame(df) > + } > + else { > + line<-data.frame(line) > + df<-rbind(df,line) > + } > + i<-i+1 > + } > + fix(df) > + } >> > > The results of my program higly depend on the few last lines of the program. > If I put "fix(df)", as above, the function opens a window with my data and > it seems a sensible results (I have not checked in details but I barely have > what I am suppose to get). >> myfunc<-function(data,var2,var1) > ... > + } > + df<-data.frame(df) > + print(is.data.frame(df)) > + } >> myfunc(x.df,x.df$Code,vec) > [1] TRUE >> print(is.data.frame(df)) > [1] FALSE > > In the case above I ask whether or not the "df" is a data.frame and the > answer is true, when the program has ended, I ask again and the answer is > false. > > Could anyone tell me what to do to get this data and could anyone tell me > why those differences in the results? > >> as.data.frame(df) > Erreur dans as.data.frame.default(df) : > impossible de convertir automatiquement la classe "function" en un > tableau de données (data.frame) >> > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.