Hint: "601" is not 601. Have you gone through any R tutorials?
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Pauline Laïlle <pauline.lai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I built a dataframe with read.csv2(). Initially, row names are integers > (order of answers to a survey). They are listed in the csv's first column. > The import works well and my dataframe looks like I wanted it to look. > > Row names go as follows : > [1] "6" "29" "31" "32" "52" "55" "63" "71" "72" "80" "88" "89" > "91" "93" "105" "110" "111" "117" "119" "120" > [21] "122" "127" "128" "133" "137" "140" "163" "165" "167" "169" "177" > "178" "179" "184" "186" "192" "193" "200" "201" "228" > etc. > > I would like to drop rows "601" & "604" to clean the dataframe. > > While data["601",] shows me the first row i'd like to drop, data[-"601",] > returns the following : > Error in -"601" : invalid argument to unary operator > > idem with data[c("601","604"),] and data[-c("601","604"),] > > It is the first time that I run into this specific error. After reading a > bit about it I still don't understand what it means and how to fix it. > > Thanks for reading! > Best, > Pauline. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.