Hi

Try

line[,line<=-0.7,drop=F]

drop=F,keep the dimensions.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Duncan Elkins <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, list-
>    I've got a large list of multi-column data and I'd like to filter
> it according to a threshold, such as, "show me the values that are
> above 0.4 for each line."
>
> For instance, if the line of data were:
> > line
>     v1     v2    v3      v4     v5     v6    v7    v8      v9
> 1 -0.32 0.66 -0.35 -0.82 0.38 0.66 -0.02 -0.11 -0.64
>
> I can do this
> > line[,line >= 0.4]
>    v2   v6
> 1 0.66 0.66
>
> and
>
> > names(line[,line >= 0.4])
> [1] "v2" "v6"
>
> That's great.  But, if there's only one value which passes the test, as in:
>
> > line[,line <= -0.7]
> [1] -0.82
>
> The single value loses its name attribute (in this case, I want "v4").
>  I guess I could kludge this by adding a dummy column that always
> passes and trimming it out of the output, later, but it seems like
> there ought to be an easier way.  Am I misusing the bracket notation,
> or ignorant of some obvious way to subset just one column and retain
> its name?
>
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
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