[R] A very simple question

Greg Snow Greg.Snow at imail.org
Wed May 14 19:13:25 CEST 2008


Use logical subscripts rather than which:

> k <- c(1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1)
> k[ k != 1 ]
[1] 2 2
> k[ k != 2 ]
[1] 1 1 1 1 1 1
> k[ k != 3 ]
[1] 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1

Hope this helps,

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shubha
> Vishwanath Karanth
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:16 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] A very simple question
>
> Hi R,
>
>
>
> Suppose
>
> l=c(1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1)
>
>
>
> k[-which(k==1)]
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> [1] 2 2
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>
>
> k[-which(k==2)]
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> [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1
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>
>
> But,
>
>
>
> k[-which(k==3)]
>
> numeric(0)
>
>
>
> I do not want this numeric(0), instead the whole k itself
> should be my result... How do I do this?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shubha
>
>
>
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