[R] subset and lme

[Paul Lemmens]

Hoi Todd,

--On woensdag 16 juni 2004 10:18 -0400 Todd Ogden <to166 at columbia.edu> 
wrote:

> I'm puzzled by the following problem, which appears when
> attempting to run an analysis on part of a dataset:
>
> If I try:
>
>   csubset <- dat$Diagnosis==0
>
This just creates a vector of booleans that indicate (the row numbers) for 
which positions in dat Diagnosis==0.

>
>   cdat <- dat[dat$Diagnosis==0,]
>
This OTOH, uses the above vector to index the rows of dat, indeed selecting 
those rows from dat that have Diagnosis==0. This is assigned to cdat. You 
could have done

cdat <- dat[csubset,]

as well


HTH



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