[R] Selecting from a Dataframe

Andy Bunn abunn at whrc.org
Tue Apr 4 19:54:16 CEST 2006


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> Subject: [R] Selecting from a Dataframe
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a data frame with many fields and there are many records. 
> One of the fields is county names in Georgia. 
> I want to select all the records for 3 of the counties. 
> How can I do that? 
> 
> DailyCounty is the dataframe that holds the data.  One of the fields is
> County.  The following statement will extract all records for Appling
> County and store as Appling.  
> 
> Appling <- subset(DailyCounty, DailyCounty$County== ("Appling"))

ThreeCounties <- subset(DailyCounty, County== ("Appling") | 
                 County== ("Baldwin") | County== ("Barrow"))


HTH, Andy


> 
> I suppose I can do the same for the other two counties, but how can I
> combine them into one single data frame?  Each county has a different
> numbers of records in the dataframe DailyCounty. 
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> Daniel Chan
> Meteorologist
> Georgia Forestry Commission
> P O Box 819
> Macon, GA 
> 31202
> Tel: 478-751-3508
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