Thank Jim! You are right. I didn't notice the case of none of rows match the condition.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:10 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing to be careful of is if no dataframe have less than 3 rows: > >> df1<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >> df2<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B"),number=c(1,2)) >> df3<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >> df4<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >> >> lst<-list(df1,df3,df4) >> lst > [[1]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > > [[2]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > > [[3]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > >> lst[-which(sapply(lst, nrow) < 3)] > list() >> > > Notice the list is now empty. Instead use: > >> lst[sapply(lst, nrow) >=3] > [[1]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > > [[2]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > > [[3]] > letter number > 1 A 1 > 2 B 2 > 3 C 3 > 4 D 4 > 5 E 5 > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Linlin Yan <yanlinli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Try these: >> sapply(lst, nrow) # get row numbers >> which(sapply(lst, nrow) < 3) # get the index of rows which has less than 3 >> rows >> lst <- lst[-which(sapply(lst, nrow) < 3)] # remove the rows from the list >> >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Tim Clark <mudiver1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Dear List, >>> >>> I have a list containing data frames of various numbers of rows. I need to >>> remove any data frame that has less than 3 rows. For example: >>> >>> df1<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >>> df2<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B"),number=c(1,2)) >>> df3<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >>> df4<-data.frame(letter=c("A","B","C","D","E"),number=c(1,2,3,4,5)) >>> >>> lst<-list(df1,df2,df3,df4) >>> >>> How can I determine that the second object (df2) has less than 3 rows and >>> remove it from the list? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Tim Clark >>> Department of Zoology >>> University of Hawaii >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > ______________________________________________ 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.