Here is possibly one method (if I have understood you correctly): > con <- textConnection(" + xloc yloc gonad ind Ene W Agent + 1 23 20 516.74 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 + 2 23 20 1143.20 1 0.02 20.21 0.50 + 3 21 19 250.00 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 + 4 22 15 251.98 1 0.02 18.69 0.25 + 5 24 18 598.08 1 0.02 18.69 0.25 + ") > > pop <- read.table(con, header = TRUE) > close(con) > > i <- with(pop, cumsum(!duplicated(cbind(xloc, yloc)))) > > k <- 2 ## how many do you want? > > no <- min(which(i == k)) > pop[1:no, ] xloc yloc gonad ind Ene W Agent 1 23 20 516.74 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 2 23 20 1143.20 1 0.02 20.21 0.50 3 21 19 250.00 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 >
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Gutierrez Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2011 1:52 PM To: R help Subject: [R] extract rows with unique values from data.frame Hello! I have the data frame "pop": xloc yloc gonad ind Ene W Agent 1 23 20 516.74 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 2 23 20 1143.20 1 0.02 20.21 0.50 3 21 19 250.00 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 4 22 15 251.98 1 0.02 18.69 0.25 5 24 18 598.08 1 0.02 18.69 0.25 And I need to extract the number of rows that have unique (xloc, yloc) values. For example I need 2 unique cells (xloc,yloc) so the number of rows to extract would be 3 as follows: xloc yloc gonad ind Ene W Agent 1 23 20 516.74 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 2 23 20 1143.20 1 0.02 20.21 0.50 3 21 19 250.00 1 0.02 20.21 0.25 Thanks for any help! Nico ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.