Subsetting a dataset

2011-06-12 Thread Kumar Mainali
I have a huge dataset containing millions of rows and several dozen columns in a tab delimited text file. I need to extract a small subset of rows and only three columns. One of the three columns has two word string with header “Scientific Name”. The other two columns carry numbers for Longitude a

Subsetting a dataset

2011-06-12 Thread Kumar Mainali
I have a huge dataset containing millions of rows and several dozen columns in a tab delimited text file. I need to extract a small subset of rows and only three columns. One of the three columns has two word string with header “Scientific Name”. The other two columns carry numbers for Longitude a

Selecting unique values

2011-07-26 Thread Kumar Mainali
Greetings I have a dataset with occurrence records of multiple species. I need to get rid of multiple listings of the same occurrence point for a species (as you see below in red and blue typeface). How do I create a dataset only with unique set of longitude and latitude for each species? Thanks i

Re: Selecting unique values

2011-07-26 Thread Kumar Mainali
g/treap/ > > If you just need things unique'd once, the set + yield is an excellent > option. If you need to keep things in order, but also need to make changes > now and then, the treap is very good. > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kumar Mainali wrote: > >> G