[R] deleting data of a given date range.

[PIKAL Petr]

Hi


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> hey,
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> I have a huge dataset with over 300000 rows which contains data about
> something from 2009-2012. does anyone know how i can delete all the
> rows which contain data from 2009 and only have data from 2010-2012???
> is there a particular function i can use on the date column so that all
> data from 2009 can be deleted???

It depends on structure of your data (unstated). If I presume that you have data frame and you have date in some column you can just use standard subsetting

new.data <- your.data[your.data$Date > some.threshold.Date, ] 

Regards
Petr



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