Delete rows based on values in R

Question

Is there a way to delete rows based on values . For example

df
ColA   ColB
A      1
B      2    
A      3

Expected output (Basically i know we can delete based on row number. But is there way to way to delete based on values ("A", 3)

df
ColA   ColB
A      1
B      2

check out the [`subset`](https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/subset) function `subset(df, !(ColA == "A" & ColB == 3))` — bouncyball, Feb 09 '21 at 14:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 14:38

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You can use subset from base R

> subset(df,!(ColA=="A"&ColB==3))
  ColA ColB
1    A    1
2    B    2

or a data.table solution

> setDT(df)[!.("A",3),on = .(ColA,ColB)]
   ColA ColB
1:    A    1
2:    B    2

answered Feb 09 '21 at 14:38

ThomasIsCoding

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 16:19

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An option with filter

library(dplyr)
df %>% 
    filter(!(ColA == "A" & ColB == 3))

answered Feb 09 '21 at 16:19

akrun

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 14:35

The easiest way to do this is to use the which() function (?which). You can then use this with a minus sign in conjunction with with indexing to subset based on a particular criteria.

df <- as.data.frame(cbind("ColA"=c("A", "B", "A"), "ColB" = c(1, 2, 3)))

df <- df[-which(df[,2]==3),]

View(df)

Delete rows based on values in R

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