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Asked: 2026-06-14T20:26:49+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How to delete a row in R I can’t figure out how

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How to delete a row in R

I can’t figure out how to simply remove row (n) from a dataframe in R.
R’s documentation and intro manual are so horribly written, they are virtually zero help on this very simple problem.
Also, every explanation i’ve found here/ on google is for removing rows that contain strings, or duplicates, etc, which have been excessively advanced for my problem and lead me to introduce more bugs and get nowhere. I just want to remove a row.

Thanks in advance for your help.

fyi the list is in the variable eld, which has 5 columns and 33 rows. I would like to remove row 14. I initialized eld with the following command

eld <- read.table("election2012.txt")

so my desired result is

eldNew <- eld(minus row 14)
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    eldNew <- eld[-14,]

    See ?"[" for a start …

    For ‘[’-indexing only: ‘i’, ‘j’, ‘…’ can be logical
    vectors, indicating elements/slices to select. Such vectors
    are recycled if necessary to match the corresponding extent.
    ‘i’, ‘j’, ‘…’ can also be negative integers, indicating
    elements/slices to leave out of the selection    .

    (emphasis added)

    edit: looking around I notice
    How to delete the first row of a dataframe in R? , which has the answer … seems like the title should have popped to your attention if you were looking for answers on SO?

    edit 2: I also found How do I delete rows in a data frame? , searching SO for delete row data frame …

    Also http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:remove_rows_data_frame

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