Question

I have the following dataset:

text <- c(1:13)
numbers <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
test <- data.frame(
    text =text,
    is.numeric.feature = numbers)

   text is.numeric.feature
1     1                  1
2     2                  1
...
13    13                 1

Now I want to remove all rows where the numeric feature == 0 (there are none here, but in other datasets there are)
When I use the following command, my complete dataset is empty, what did I do wrong?

test[-c(which(test$is.numeric.feature==0)),]

Answer 1

The reason is that which(data$is.numeric.feature==0) returns integer(0) when there are no zeros.

> Data[-integer(0),]
[1] text               is.numeric.feature
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

To overcome this, better work with logical vectors :

Data[Data$is.numeric.feature!=0,]

On a sidenote, the c() in your oneliner is redundant. which returns a vector anyway. And please, never ever give your dataframe or vectors a name that’s also the name of a function. You will run into trouble at one point.