This only shows how to extract 1 row, 1 column or 1 element. I want to get
2 columns out of a matrix and save that in a new matrix.

Kind regards,
Niek

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.2/html/vector.html#extracting
>
> Best,
>
>
> L.
>
>
>
> On 2012-02-24 18:26, Niek de Klein wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to do the same thing as in the R example found here:
> http://www.r-tutor.com/r-introduction/data-frame/data-frame-column-slice.
> He makes use of the mtcars datase which looks like this:
>
>                    mpg cyl disp  hp drat   wt ...
>     Mazda RX4     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.62 ...
>     Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.88 ...
>     Datsun 710    22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.32 ...
>
> And then selects the mpg and hp column with an index vector
>
>     > mtcars[c("mpg", "hp")]
>                        mpg  hp
>     Mazda RX4         21.0 110
>     Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0 110
>     Datsun 710        22.8  93
>
> It's simple to retrieve one row in rpy2, to get mpg in this case:
>
>     import rpy2.robjects as R
>     R.r['mtcars'][0]
>
> However, I don't know how to select two columns
>
>     import rpy2.robjects as R
>     R.r['mtcars'][R.vectors.IntVector([0,3])]
>
> Gives
>
>     TypeError: 'IntVector' object cannot be interpreted as an index
>
> Just like every other vector that is in R.vectors (I tried them all)
>
> So my question comes down to, how can I get an index vector in rpy2, or if
> that doesn't exist, how can I select two columns?
>
> Thanks!
> Niek
>
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