[R] create a new data frame after comparing two columns of the previous data frame

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 00:56:52 CEST 2011


Use "&" instead of "&&"

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Nanami 13
<deconstructed.morning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to find a way to filter a table; If I am given for example the
> following table:
>> head(intra)
>   chr miRNA   start     end strand              ACC             hsa_ID
> region region_start region_end   gene_id transcrip_id
> 1 chr1 miRNA 1102484 1102578      + ACC="MI0000342"; ID="hsa-mir-200b";
> exon      1102484    1102578 NR_029639    NR_029639
> 2 chr1 miRNA 1103243 1103332      + ACC="MI0000737"; ID="hsa-mir-200a";
> exon      1103243    1103332 NR_029834    NR_029834
> 3 chr1 miRNA 1104385 1104467      + ACC="MI0001641";  ID="hsa-mir-429";
> exon      1104385    1104467 NR_029957    NR_029957
> 4 chr1 miRNA 3044539 3044599      + ACC="MI0015861"; ID="hsa-mir-4251";
> exon      3044539    3044599 NR_036215    NR_036215
> 5 chr1 miRNA 3477260 3477354      - ACC="MI0003556"; ID="hsa-mir-551a";
> exon      3477260    3477354 NR_030277    NR_030277
> 6 chr1 miRNA 6489894 6489956      - ACC="MI0015864"; ID="hsa-mir-4252";
> exon      6489894    6489956 NR_036218    NR_036218
>
> I would only like to keep in the table the rows that have intra$start !=
> intra$region_start and intra$end != intra$region_end.
> I've tried using this but I get the following error:
>
>
>> intra<- intra[(intra$start != intra$region_start )&&(intra$end !=
> intra$region_end)]
>> head(intra)
> data frame with 0 columns and 6 rows
>
> Thank you,
>
> best,
> Nanami
>
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