[R] split-apply question

[andrew]

?subset is probably what you want:

subset(x, x1 == 'A')

On Oct 2, 1:43 pm, Kavitha Venkatesan <kavitha.venkate... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a data frame that looks like this:
>
> >x
>
> x1  x2  x3
> A   1    1.5
> B   2    0.9
> B   3    2.7
> C   7    1.8
> D   7    1.3
>
> I want to "group" by the x1 column and in the case of multiple x$x1 values
> (e.g., "B")d, return rows that have the smallest values of x2. In the case
> of rows with only one value of x1 (e.g., "A"), return the row as is. How can
> I do that?  For example, in the above case, the output I want would be:
>
> x1  x2  x3
> A   1    1.5
> B   2    0.9
> C   7    1.8
> D   7    1.3
>
> Thanks!
>
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