doBy (version 4.5-15)

subsetBy: Finds subsets of a dataframe which is split by variables in a formula.

Description

A data frame is split by a formula into groups. Then subsets are found within each group, and the result is collected into a data frame.

Usage

subsetBy(formula, subset, data = parent.frame(), select, drop=FALSE,
join=TRUE, ... )

Arguments

formula

A formula to split by

subset

logical expression indicating elements or rows to keep: missing values are taken as false.

data

A data frame

select

expression, indicating columns to select from a data frame.

drop

passed on to [ indexing operator.

join

If FALSE the result is a list of data frames (as defined by 'formula'); if TRUE one data frame is returned.

...

further arguments to be passed to or from other methods.

Value

A data frame.

See Also

See Also splitBy

Examples

data(dietox)
subsetBy(~Evit, Weight < mean(Weight), data=dietox)