On 05/23/08 14:34, kayj wrote: > > hello, > > I have data of individuals; with their age and other infromation. Each row > corresponds to a single individual. I would like to divide the data and > store them into two files. one file with people less than 50 years of age > and the other with people more than 50 years of age.
Assuming you have your data in a dataframe x with one column called "age" (get the data into R e.g. with read.csv) young <- x[x$age < 50,] write.table(young,file="young.txt") etc. m. -- Marianne Promberger Graduate student in Psychology http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mpromber ______________________________________________ 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.