remove rows of a matrix by part of its row name
Hello,
Use grep to get the row indices and then subset with a *negative* index
to remove those rows.
rn <- scan(what = character(), text = "
70/556
71.1/280
72.1/556
72.1/343
73.1/390
73.1/556
")
mat <- matrix(rnorm(6*6), nrow = 6)
row.names(mat) <- rn
inx <- grep("73\\.", row.names(mat))
new_mat <- mat[-inx, ]
new_mat
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
On 5/22/2018 11:48 AM, Ahmed Serag wrote:
Dear R-experts, How can I remove a certain feature or observation by a part of its name. To be clear, I have a matrix with 766 observations as a rows. The row names are like this 70/556 71.1/280 72.1/556 72.1/343 73.1/390 73.1/556 Now I would like to remove all the rows that contain the text 73.1 Any ideas or suggestion please ? Regards ********************** Ahmed Serag Analytical Chemistry Department Faculty of Pharmacy Al-Azhar University Cairo Egypt [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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