That's fine, but do note that the which() function is wholly unnecessary in your last line as R allows logical indexing. Perhaps another topic you need to study.
-- Bert On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:56 PM ani jaya <gaaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Jeff and Bert, > > Thank you very much for your correction and explanation. > And yes, I need to study about date format more. > Sorry for HTML mail, don't realize. > > I was able to subset the data that I want. > > mjo30<-read.table("rmm.txt", header=FALSE, skip=4234, nrows=10957) > mjo30$V8<-NULL > names(mjo30)<-c("year","month","day", "rmm1","rmm2","phase","amp") > mjo3<-as.Date(with(mjo30,paste(year,month, day, sep="-")),"%Y-%m-%d") > mjo<-mjo30[which(mjo3%in%date),] > > head(mjo) > year month day rmm1 rmm2 phase amp > 115 1986 4 25 -0.319090 -0.363030 2 0.483332 > 526 1987 6 10 1.662870 0.291632 5 1.688250 > 977 1988 9 3 -0.604950 -0.299850 1 0.675181 > 1374 1989 10 5 0.972298 -0.461030 4 1.076060 > 1760 1990 10 26 -1.183110 -1.589810 2 1.981730 > 1953 1991 5 7 -0.317180 0.953061 7 1.004450 > > > Best, > Ani > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 3:20 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > > > > The dput function is for re-creating an R object in another R workspace, > so it uses fundamental base types to define objects. A Date is really the > number of days since a specific date (typically 1970-01-01) that get > converted to look like dates whenever you display or print them, so what > you are seiing are those numbers. If we enter the R code returned by dput > into our R session we will be able to see the dates. > > > > Your mjo30 table seems to call the day of the month the "date"... which > is confusing. I would combine those three columns into one like > > > > mjo30$Dt <- as.Date( ISOdate( mjo30$year, mjo30$month, mjo30$date ) ) > > > > You could then use indexing > > > > mjo30[ date[1] == mjo30$Dt, ] > > > > or > > > > mjo30[ mjo30$Dt %in% date, ] > > > > but the subset function would not work in this case because you have two > different objects (a column in mjo30 and a vector in your global > environment) both referred to as 'date'. > > > > On January 13, 2020 8:53:38 PM PST, ani jaya <gaaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Good morning R-Help, > > > > > >I have a dataframe with 7 columns and 10000+ rows. I want to > > >subset/extract > > >those data frame with specific date (not in order). Here the head of my > > >data frame: > > > > > >head(mjo30) year month date rmm1 rmm2 phase amp > > >1 1986 1 1 -0.326480 -1.55895 2 1.59277 > > >2 1986 1 2 -0.417700 -1.82689 2 1.87403 > > >3 1986 1 3 0.032915 -2.40150 3 2.40172 > > >4 1986 1 4 0.492743 -2.49216 3 2.54041 > > >5 1986 1 5 0.585106 -2.76866 3 2.82981 > > >6 1986 1 6 0.665013 -3.13883 3 3.20851 > > > > > >and here my specific date: > > >> date [1] "1986-04-25" "1987-06-10" "1988-09-03" "1989-10-05" > > >"1990-10-26" "1991-05-07" "1992-11-19" "1993-01-23" "1994-12-04" > > >[10] "1995-05-11" "1996-10-04" "1997-04-29" "1998-04-08" "1999-01-16" > > >"2000-08-01" "2001-10-02" "2002-05-08" "2003-04-01" > > >[19] "2004-05-07" "2005-09-02" "2006-12-30" "2007-09-03" "2008-10-24" > > >"2009-11-14" "2010-07-05" "2011-04-30" "2012-05-21" > > >[28] "2013-04-07" "2014-05-07" "2015-07-26" > > > > > >And also I was confused when I dput my date, it show like this: > > >> dput(date)structure(c(5958, 6369, 6820, 7217, 7603, 7796, 8358, 8423, > > >9103, > > >9261, 9773, 9980, 10324, 10607, 11170, 11597, 11815, 12143, 12545, > > >13028, 13512, 13759, 14176, 14562, 14795, 15094, 15481, 15802, > > >16197, 16642), class = "Date") > > > > > >what is that mean? I mean why it is not recall the dates but some > > >values (5958,6369,7217,..)? > > > > > >Any comment and recommendation is appreciate. Thank you. > > > > > >Best, > > > > > >Ani > > > > > > [[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. > > > > -- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.