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Subject: [S] Dumb question alert
From: Karl Young <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:00:40 -0700
Organization: VA MRS Unit, UCSF
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Sorry for the dumb question but I believe I've honestly tried all other
avenues I'm aware of (short of adding a few neurons !). I'm using S-PLUS
4.5 on a pc-clone running NT 4.0.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to perform the trivial task of
extracting a subset from a data frame based on the value of a character
field, e.g. if I have a table like:

    name      x       y
0    lucy    0.1    30.0
1    lucy    0.2    22.0
2    lucy    0.12  50.2
3    desi    0.5    61.3
4    desi    0.4    50.3
5    fred    0.41  55.2
6    ethel   0.2    31.3
7    ethel   0.3    44.2

which I've read in successfully with read.table() how do I plot y vs. x
for name = 'lucy' only (I'd eventually like to also do things like
regressions for x and y for lucy only) ?

I've scoured the online documentation, the FAQ that I found, and the
book
by Venables and Ripley. I'm sure the information is there, but
apparently not
for an S-PLUS challenged neophyte like me. Thanks for any tips,

-- KY

Karl Young
UCSF,VA Medical Center
MRS Unit (114M)
4150 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121

Email: kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu
Phone: (415) 750-2158  lab
       (415) 750-9463  home
FAX:   (415) 668-2864


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