How to re-combine values based on an index?

Thank you for your response,  here is a better example of what I am trying to do:

data(iris)
index_setosa <- which(iris$Species == "setosa")
iris_setosa <- data.frame()
iris_setosa[index_setosa,] <-iris[index_setosa,]
iris_others <- data.frame()
iris_others[-index_setosa,] <- iris[-index_setosa,]

So the idea would be that iris_setosa is a dataframe of size 150, with 50 observations of setosa,
using their original same indices, and 100 observations of NA.  Likewise iris_others would be
100 observations of species besides setosa, using their original indices, and there would be 50 NA's.

The above doesn't work.  When I execute it, I am left with iris_setosa having 0 columns, I wish it to have all 
the original columns of iris.

That said, once I get past the above (being able to split them out and keep original indices), I wish to be able to combine
iris_setosa and iris_others so that iris_combined is a data frame with no NA's and all the original data.

Does this make sense?  So I am basically taking a dataframe, splitting it based on some criteria, and working on the two
split dataframes separately, and then I wish to recombine.

Brian


So at this point, I have iris_setosa a dataframe of size 
On Dec 1, 2012, at 11:34 PM, William Dunlap wrote:

newdataset[testindex] = testset[testindex]
object 'dataset' not found

Is that really what R printed?  I get

newdataset[testindex] = testset[testindex]

Error in newdataset[testindex] = testset[testindex] : 
  object 'newdataset' not found
but perhaps you have a different problem.  Copy and paste
(and read) the error message you got.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

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Subject: [R] How to re-combine values based on an index?

I am able to split my df into two like so:

dataset <- trainset
index <- 1:nrow(dataset)
testindex <- sample(index, trunc(length(index)*30/100))
trainset <- dataset[-testindex,]
testset <- dataset[testindex,-1]

So I have the index information, how could I re-combine the data using that back into a
single df?

I tried what I thought might work, but failed with:

newdataset[testindex] = testset[testindex]
object 'dataset' not found
newdataset[-testindex] = trainset[-testindex]
object 'dataset' not found

Brian