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This document discusses subsetting in R. It describes how to extract subsets of vectors, matrices, and lists using [, [[, and $ operators. It also demonstrates how to remove NA values when subsetting multiple objects to retain only rows with complete data.

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Introduction To The R Programming Language

This document discusses subsetting in R. It describes how to extract subsets of vectors, matrices, and lists using [, [[, and $ operators. It also demonstrates how to remove NA values when subsetting multiple objects to retain only rows with complete data.

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Introduction to the R Language

Introduction to the R Language


DataTypesandBasicOperations

Roger Peng, Associate Professor


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Subsetting
There are a number of operators that can be used to extract subsets of R objects.
[always returns an object of the same class as the original; can be used to select more than one
element (there is one exception)
[[ is used to extract elements of a list or a data frame; it can only be used to extract a single
element and the class of the returned object will not necessarily be a list or data frame
$is used to extract elements of a list or data frame by name; semantics are similar to hat of [[.

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Subsetting
> x <- c("a", "b", "c", "c", "d", "a")
> x[1]
[1] "a"
> x[2]
[1] "b"
> x[1:4]
[1] "a" "b" "c" "c"
> x[x > "a"]
[1] "b" "c" "c" "d"
> u <- x > "a"
>u
[1] FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE
> x[u]
[1] "b" "c" "c" "d"

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SubsettingaMatrix
Matrices can be subsetted in the usual way with (i,j) type indices.
> x <- matrix(1:6, 2, 3)
> x[1, 2]
[1] 3
> x[2, 1]
[1] 2

Indices can also be missing.


> x[1, ]
[1] 1 3 5
> x[, 2]
[1] 3 4

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SubsettingaMatrix
By default, when a single element of a matrix is retrieved, it is returned as a vector of length 1 rather
than a 1 1 matrix. This behavior can be turned off by setting drop = FALSE.
> x <- matrix(1:6, 2, 3)
> x[1, 2]
[1] 3
> x[1, 2, drop = FALSE]
[,1]
[1,] 3

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Similarly, subsetting a single column or a single row will give you a vector, not a matrix (by default).
> x <- matrix(1:6, 2, 3)
> x[1, ]
[1] 1 3 5
> x[1, , drop = FALSE]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]
1
3
5

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SubsettingLists
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Subsetting Lists
> x <- list(foo = 1:4, bar = 0.6)
> x[1]
$foo
[1] 1 2 3 4
> x[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3 4
> x$bar
[1] 0.6
> x[["bar"]]
[1] 0.6
> x["bar"]
$bar
[1] 0.6

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> x <- list(foo = 1:4, bar = 0.6, baz = "hello")
> x[c(1, 3)]
$foo
[1] 1 2 3 4
$baz
[1] "hello"

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SubsettingLists
The [[operator can be used with computed indices; $can only be used with literal names.
> x <- list(foo = 1:4, bar = 0.6, baz = "hello")
> name <- "foo"
> x[[name]] ## computed index for foo
[1] 1 2 3 4
> x$name
## element name doesnt exist!
NULL
> x$foo
[1] 1 2 3 4 ## element foo does exist

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SubsettingNestedElementsofaList
The [[can take an integer sequence.
> x <- list(a = list(10, 12, 14), b = c(3.14, 2.81))
> x[[c(1, 3)]]
[1] 14
> x[[1]][[3]]
[1] 14
> x[[c(2, 1)]]
[1] 3.14

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PartialMatching
Partial matching of names is allowed with [[and $.
> x <- list(aardvark = 1:5)
> x$a
[1] 1 2 3 4 5
> x[["a"]]
NULL
> x[["a", exact = FALSE]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

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RemovingNAValues
A common task is to remove missing values (NAs).
> x <- c(1, 2, NA, 4, NA, 5)
> bad <- is.na(x)
> x[!bad]
[1] 1 2 4 5

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What if there are multiple things and you want to take the subset with no missing values?
> x <- c(1, 2, NA, 4, NA, 5)
> y <- c("a", "b", NA, "d", NA, "f")
> good <- complete.cases(x, y)
> good
[1] TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE
> x[good]
[1] 1 2 4 5
> y[good]
[1] "a" "b" "d" "f"

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RemovingNAValues
> airquality[1:6, ]
Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1
41
190 7.4 67
5 1
2
36
118 8.0 72
5 2
3
12
149 12.6 74
5 3
4
18
313 11.5 62
5 4
5
NA
NA 14.3 56
5 5
6
28
NA 14.9 66
5 6
> good <- complete.cases(airquality)
> airquality[good, ][1:6, ]
Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1
41
190 7.4 67
5 1
2
36
118 8.0 72
5 2
3
12
149 12.6 74
5 3
4
18
313 11.5 62
5 4
7
23
299 8.6 65
5 7

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