Hi OK, I now got the point. You have several options
1. If your data frame is numeric, change it to matrix. m<-as.matrix(df) m x y [1,] 1 2 [2,] 1 2 [3,] NA 7 [4,] NA 7 identical(m[1,],m[2,]) [1] TRUE 2. Or make your own function nidentical<- function(x,y) { xn<-as.numeric(x) yn<-as.numeric(y) identical(xn,yn)} nidentical(df[1,],df[2,]) [1] TRUE which works for matrix too. Both works also for factor variables and the second option issues warning when dealing with character values. I did not tested it with other data types. If you used as.character instead of as.numeric, the result will be probably same (except the warning) Regards Petr From: Jorgen Harmse [mailto:jorgen.har...@civitaslearning.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:08 PM To: PIKAL Petr Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Re move row.names column in dataframe identical(df[1,],df[2,]) is FALSE because of the row names. all( == ) is just a work-around that I attempted. Jorgen. On Mar 11, 2013, at 02:53 , PIKAL Petr wrote: df <- data.frame(x=c(1,1,NA,NA), y=c(2,2,7,7)) identical(df[1,],df[2,]) [1] FALSE all(df[1,]==df[2,]) [1] TRUE all(df[3,]==df[4,]) [1] NA I beg your pardon, whot does row names do with the above result? What do you expect as a result of all(df[3,]==df[4,]) Regards Petr [[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.