[R] Remove

Ashta sewashm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 00:44:38 CET 2017


Thank you David.
This will not work.  Tthis removes only duplicate records.
DM[ !duplicated(DM$x) , ]

My goal is to remove the group if all elements of x in that group have
 the same value.


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:21 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 6, 2017, at 3:15 PM, Ashta <sewashm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> In a data set I have group(GR) and two variables   x and y. I want to
>> remove a  group that have  the same record for the x variable in each
>> row.
>>
>> DM <- read.table( text='GR x y
>> A 25 125
>> A 23 135
>> A 14 145
>> A 12 230
>> B 25 321
>> B 25 512
>> B 25 123
>> B 25 451
>> C 11 521
>> C 14 235
>> C 15 258
>> C 10 654',header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
>>
>> In this example the output should contain group A and C  as group B
>> has   the same record  for the variable x .
>>
>> The result will be
>> A 25 125
>> A 23 135
>> A 14 145
>> A 12 230
>> C 11 521
>> C 14 235
>> C 15 258
>> C 10 654
>
> Try:
>
> DM[ !duplicated(DM$x) , ]
>>
>> How do I do it R?
>> Thank you.
>>
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> David Winsemius
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