Hi , how is it possible t cut some levels from one factor to subsetting a data.frame on? subdata <- subset(data, data$FACTOR="1" | data$FACTOR="BETA" | data$FACTOR="XY") ??? Maybe a modifcation here is better, but how? mergex[mergex$PLZX %in% levels(mergex$PLZX) ,] Many thanks and regards, Christian