Hi Ryan,

How about this?

x[!is.na(x[,3]),]

HTH,
Jorge


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ryan Utz <> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to R and have a data management problem. I am importing
> a
> data matrix with some columns that have missing values. I am trying to
> figure out how to delete rows with NA for data FOR JUST ONE SPECIFIED
> column. For instance, with the example matrix:
>
> x<-matrix(nrow=5,ncol=3)
> x[,]<-1
> x[5,1]<-NA
> x[3,3]<-NA
>
> how do I tell R to delete any rows with an NA value in column 3, but NA in
> column 1 is just fine? I've played with na.omit but that just takes out all
> of the NA values...
>
> Thanks ahead of time for any help,
> Ryan Utz
>
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