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Message-ID: <50F9B85C.2000302@sapo.pt>
Date: 2013-01-18T21:02:20Z
From: Rui Barradas
Subject: select rows with identical columns from a data frame
In-Reply-To: <87zk06xlfi.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello,

Try the following.

complete.cases(f) & apply(f, 1, function(x) all(x == x[1]))


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 18-01-2013 20:53, Sam Steingold escreveu:
> I have a data frame with several columns.
> I want to select the rows with no NAs (as with complete.cases)
> and all columns identical.
> E.g., for
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> f <- data.frame(a=c(1,NA,NA,4),b=c(1,NA,3,40),c=c(1,NA,5,40))
>> f
>     a  b  c
> 1  1  1  1
> 2 NA NA NA
> 3 NA  3  5
> 4  4 40 40
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I want the vector TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE selecting just the first
> row because there all 3 columns are the same and none is NA.
>
> thanks!
>