Remko, Thank you for your reply. When I try your code, I'm getting the following error:
acts10 <-read.table('RailAccident10.txt',sep=',',header=T) > acts11 <- acts10[acts10$ACCDMG > 10^5,] > h.test <- substr(acts11$CAUSE,1,1) > h.data <- acts11[h.test == 'H'] Error in `[.data.frame`(acts11, h.test == "H") : undefined columns selected To confirm that acts11$CAUSE is there, I did this: summary(substr(acts11$CAUSE,1,1)=='H') And got this: Mode FALSE TRUE NA's logical 393 156 0 Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks again, I really appreciate your help. On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Remko Duursma [via R] < ml-node+s789695n4090042...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > > dfr <- data.frame(txt= c("abab","ghghg","ththt","dfdfdf"), yvar=1:4) > > ind <- substr(dfr$txt,1,2) > > dfr[ind == "ab",] > > > > greetings, > Remko > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Searching-for-the-first-two-characters-of-a-string-tp4089862p4090042.html > To unsubscribe from Searching for the first two characters of a string, click > here<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4089862&code=YWxhbi5jbGluYXJkQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw0MDg5ODYyfC01NTMwMzEzOTY=> > . > NAML<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.InstantMailNamespace&breadcrumbs=instant+emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Searching-for-the-first-two-characters-of-a-string-tp4089862p4091786.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.