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how to delete rows by a list of rownames

4 messages · hanansela, Brad Patrick Schneid, R. Michael Weylandt

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Hello
I have a list of row names that needs to be deleted from a data frame. how
do i do that. 
one of the columns in the data frame contains the row names as numbers I can
also select by this column(will it be easier?). 
Thank you  

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here is one way

df1 <- data.frame(c(1:20), c(21:40), c(31:50))
list1 <- c(3, 6, 20)
df2 <- df1[-list1,]
hanansela wrote:
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I think that only works because the rows are ordered and have no
names: try something more like this:

df1 <- data.frame(1:20, 21:40, 31:50)
rownames(df1) <- sample(letters, 20)

toDrop <- sample(rownames(df1), 5)

df1[ !(rownames(df1) %in% toDrop), ]

or alternatively

toKeep <- sample(rownames(df1), 5)

df1[rownames(df1) %in% toKeep, ]

Michael
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, B77S <bps0002 at auburn.edu> wrote: