[R] Delete Block of Rows

[nmarti]

Thanks for all the replies.
My data frame is actually 4000 rows and 10 columns.

This line,
df <- subset( df, !( rownames(df) %in% 1:25 ) )  Did not work for me.  Is
there a certain library I need to load for this to work (I'm assuming there
isn't)?  I didn't get an error message, warning, or anything; it just didn't
work.

These two lines did work,
df = df[ -c(1:25), ]    Or,
df = df[ 26:200, ]      I'm not sure why they didn't work the first time I
tried them.

Once again, thanks for the help!



milton ruser wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I don´t know if you are trying to solve the delete job or to test how
> functions work.
> 
> If you really want to delete lines from a data.frame, try something like
> this.
> 
> 
> rowcount<-1:100
> x<-runif(100)
> y<-runif(100)
> 
> df<-data.frame(cbind(rowcount,x,y))
> 
> df.subset<-subset(df, !(rownames(df) %in% 1:25))
> 
>      #    ! (a condition) is the negation of the condition
> 
>      #   so the output will be those lines that are not on interval 1:25
> 
> 
> 
> By the way, it is not a good idea to use "data" as a input argument on
> a function because "data" is a pre-defined function.
> Kind regards,
> 
> miltinho
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/15/08, nmarti <nate318i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am trying to delete a section of rows from a data frame (based on no
>> condition).  Lets say my data frame has 200 rows and I want to delete
>> rows
>> 1
>> through 25.  How would I do this?
>>
>> I know x[ -1, ] deletes the first row (or any desired row).  I tried
>> using
>> different variations of this, like x[ -c(1:25), ] but that didn't work. 
>> I
>> also tried writting a few functions, for example:
>>
>> deleteRows <- function( data, s, e, ) {
>> for( i in s:e )
>> data[ -i, ]
>> }
>> deleteRows( ds, 1, 25 )
>>
>> But that didn't work either, it only deleted row 25 (i'm new to writing
>> functions).
>> Any thoughts on how to solve my problem would be appreciated.
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