Filter data.frame rows by a logical condition

Question

I want to filter rows from a data.frame based on a logical condition. Let\'s suppose that I have data frame like

   expr_value     cell_type
1           


        

Answer 1

The reason expr[expr[2] == 'hesc'] doesn't work is that for a data frame, x[y] selects columns, not rows. If you want to select rows, change to the syntax x[y,] instead:

> expr[expr[2] == 'hesc',]
  expr_value cell_type
4   5.929771      hesc
5   5.873096      hesc
6   5.665857      hesc