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Asked: May 19, 20262026-05-19T22:31:51+00:00 2026-05-19T22:31:51+00:00

I have a data.frame with one column, like so: >d = data.frame(animal=c(horse,dog,cat)) then I

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I have a data.frame with one column, like so:

>d = data.frame(animal=c("horse","dog","cat"))

then I filter it by excluding all items also present in a vector. e.g.:

> res = d[!(d$animal %in% c("horse")),]
> res
[1] dog cat
Levels: cat dog horse
>class(res)
[1] "factor"

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    2026-05-19T22:31:52+00:00Added an answer on May 19, 2026 at 10:31 pm

    Welcome to R. You’ve just been bitten by the drop annoyance: you need to explicitly tell R not to “drop to one-dimension”:

    res = d[!(d$animal %in% c("horse")), , drop = FALSE] 
    
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