Get the row number in R given the row name

Asked Jun 23 '14 at 17:08

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Is there an equivalent "match" function for the rows?

I could use:

which(rownames(data.frame)=="name")

but since

which(colnames(data.frame)=="name")

can be replaced by

match("name", names(data.frame))

I wonder if there is a similar function for the rows. My goal is to delete rows directly using their names, not their number.

Thanks

Stéphane

edited Jun 23 '14 at 17:11

jbaums

asked Jun 23 '14 at 17:08

SD Vincent

[Make your question reproducible](http://stackoverflow.com/q/5963269/1315767) and consider using `%in%` – Jilber Urbina Jun 23 '14 at 17:13
Why do you not want to use their row numbers? – Rich Scriven Jun 23 '14 at 17:22
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`match("name",rownames(data.frame))` – Carl Witthoft Jun 23 '14 at 18:23

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