Extract one element from yahooKeystats data

Using str(data) would have been more informative.

"data" it turns out is a dataframe with a single column. which is a factor
with rownames. Not the most typical of constructions, but the authors must
have had their reasons ....

data$Value[row.names(data)=="Float"]
# [1] 1.30B
# 52 Levels: -1.00% -11.40% -18.69% -38.03% 0.04% 0.78 06-Feb-09 09-Mar-09
... NA

# ... or to get rid of those annoying factor levels...
as.character(data[row.names(data)=="Float", ] )
# [1] "1.30B"

Thank you.  I was in the middle of trying to respond to your first
post when I got your second containing the answer.

My problem is that I didn't understand the structure of the data and I
couldn't figure out the relationship of the row names to the data so I
was trying everything under the sun, yet nothing was yielding the
results I wanted.

On my own, I was able to retrieve the data using:

d.ibm$Value[38]

[1] 1.30B
52 Levels: -1.00% -11.40% -18.69% -38.03% 0.04% 0.78 06-Feb-09
09-Mar-09 1.176 1.30% 1.30B 1.32B 1.40% 1.7 10.304 100.84B ... NA

But that seemed too brittle to be used reliably.  I wanted a way to
get to the data using what I now know to be the row name.  I'm sorry
my initial question was so vague/uninformative.  Through brute force,
I had tried dozens of different ways to coax out the information I
needed.  What I really needed was a better understanding of the data
structure.

Thanks so much for your help.

James