Perhaps one of the following two methods: > zgene = data.frame( TTT=c(0,1,0,0), + TTA=c(0,1,1,0), + ATA=c(1,0,0,0), + ATT=c(0,0,0,0), + row.names=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", "gene4")) > zgene TTT TTA ATA ATT gene1 0 0 1 0 gene2 1 1 0 0 gene3 0 1 0 0 gene4 0 0 0 0 > > zgene[ , zgene[2,1:4] > 0] TTT TTA gene1 0 0 gene2 1 1 gene3 0 1 gene4 0 0 > > zgene[ , zgene[rownames(zgene) == "gene2",1:4] > 0] TTT TTA gene1 0 0 gene2 1 1 gene3 0 1 gene4 0 0 >
Best Regards, Bill. William Michels, Ph.D. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Bill, and Bill, > > many thanks for taking the time to advice, and for your suggestions. I > believe that I shall rephrase a bit my question, with a better example : > thank you again in advance for your help. > > Let's assume that we start from a data frame : > > x = data.frame( TTT=c(0,1,0,0), > TTA=c(0,1,1,0), > ATA=c(1,0,0,0), > ATT=c(0,0,0,0), > row.names=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", "gene4")) > > Shall we select "gene2", at the end, we would like to have ONLY the COLUMNS, > where "gene2" is NOT-ZERO. In other words, the output contains only the > first 2 columns : > > output = data.frame( TTT=c(0,1,0,0), > TTA=c(0,1,1,0), > row.names=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", > "gene4")) > > with much appreciation, > > -- bogdan > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:34 PM William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> > wrote: >> >> Hi Bogdan, >> >> Are you saying you want to drop columns that sum to zero? If so, I'm >> not sure you've given us a good example dataframe, since all your >> numeric columns give non-zero sums. >> >> Otherwise, what you're asking for is trivial. Below is an example >> dataframe ("ygene") with an example "AGA" column that gets dropped: >> >> > xgene <- data.frame(TTT=c(0,1,0,0), >> + TTA=c(0,1,1,0), >> + ATA=c(1,0,0,0), >> + gene=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", "gene4")) >> > >> > xgene[ , colSums(xgene[,1:3]) > 0 ] >> TTT TTA ATA gene >> 1 0 0 1 gene1 >> 2 1 1 0 gene2 >> 3 0 1 0 gene3 >> 4 0 0 0 gene4 >> > >> > ygene <- data.frame(TTT=c(0,1,0,0), >> + TTA=c(0,1,1,0), >> + AGA=c(0,0,0,0), >> + gene=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", "gene4")) >> > >> > ygene[ , colSums(ygene[,1:3]) > 0 ] >> TTT TTA gene >> 1 0 0 gene1 >> 2 1 1 gene2 >> 3 0 1 gene3 >> 4 0 0 gene4 >> >> >> HTH, >> >> Bill. >> >> William Michels, Ph.D. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Dear all, please may I ask for a suggestion : >> > >> > considering a dataframe that contains the numerical values for gene >> > expression, for example : >> > >> > x = data.frame(TTT=c(0,1,0,0), >> > TTA=c(0,1,1,0), >> > ATA=c(1,0,0,0), >> > gene=c("gene1", "gene2", "gene3", "gene4")) >> > >> > how could I select only the COLUMNS where the value of a GENE (a ROW) is >> > non-zero ? >> > >> > thank you ! >> > >> > -- bogdan >> > >> > [[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.