Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: > Yes: DF[is.na(match(row.names(DF), exclude_me)), ]
Assuming everything is possible in R: would it be possible to make the below work without breaking existing code? a <- data.frame(x=1:10) rownames(a) = letters[1:10] exclude = c("a","c") a[is.na(match(row.names(a), exclude)), ] # not really that easy to remember a[-c(1,3),] # In analogy.... a[-c(exclude),] #invalid argument to unary operator Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.