[R] problem selecting rows meeting a criterion

[Jim Bouldin]

Yes, thanks Steve and also to everyone else for helping me clear this up.
The issue was definitely the existence of other objects named X and Y that
I inadvertently referred to in my command statement.  Only when these
objects are removed AND the data frame in question is attached, will the
command I originally used work.  However, I see that it is much easier to
just use the subset function or perhaps the with function. Seems that R has
many painful lessons to teach. Thanks again.
Jim Bouldin

> This won't work in general, and is probably only working in this  
> particular case because you already have defined somewhere in your  
> workspace vars named X and Y.
> 
> What you wrote above isn't taking the values X,Y from data$X and data 
> $Y, respectively, but rather from var X and Y defined elsewhere.
> 
> Instead of doing data[X > Y], do:
> 
> data[data$X > data$Y,]
> 
> This should get you what you're expecting.
...
> 
> Hopefully you're learning a slightly different lesson now :-)
> 
> Does that clear things up at all?
> 
> -steve
> 
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> Steve Lianoglou
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