[R] extract elements

Romain Francois rfrancois at mango-solutions.com
Wed Jun 20 13:11:39 CEST 2007


Romain Francois wrote:
> Manuele Pesenti wrote:
>> Dear R users,
>> just another little question... are there other ways, I mean more 
>> easy to write, to obtain the same result I got with:
>>
>> data[95:length(dati[,1]), ]
>>
>> where data is a data frame
>>
>> to extract the last elements starting from a fixed position?
>>
>> thank you very much
>>
>> best regards
>>     Manuele PEsenti
>>   
> Hello,
>
> tail can do it:
>
> R> tail( data, -95)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Romain

Oops, almost, should be :
R> tail( data, -94)

What about a `start` argument in tail ? That'd be a bit more 
user-friendly, ...

Cheers,

Romain



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