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Remove lines from a toptable that have an empty ID (symbol)

Hi,

How to remove lines (genes) from a toptable tt that have an empty ID (symbol)? These genes are not annotated and I would like to remove them from the toptable.

the columns are: 

row.names, ID, logFC, AverExpr, …

Thanks

toptable limma r gene
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updated by zx8754 zx8754 • written by mannoulag1 mannoulag1

What have you tried? This is a quite basic R question on slicing/subsetting a dataframe.

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

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Hi

notEmpty <- subset(tt, tt$ID !="")
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written by ahmad mousavi ahmad mousavi

thank you ahmad mousavi

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written by mannoulag1 mannoulag1

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

No need to call tt in subset again, try:

notEmpty <- subset(tt, ID != "")

Also note, from ?subset manual:

This is a convenience function intended for use interactively. For programming it is better to use the standard subsetting functions like [, and in particular the non-standard evaluation of argument subset can have unanticipated consequences.

So the preferred way would be:

notEmpty <- tt[ tt$ID != "", ]
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written by zx8754 zx8754

yeah that's work too, nice code !!

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written by ahmad mousavi ahmad mousavi

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