Is there a way to filter out multiple values at once using dplyr in R?

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I know you can filter for values you want to keep using %in% but what if I wanted to remove a few values at once and keep the rest?

For example, I have a bunch of rows with transects numbers I want to keep but I want to remove all rows with transects 137, 22, and 141.

Try with something like `!x %in% values_to_drop`, e..g `!transects %in% c(137, 22, 141)` — stefan, Aug 19 '22 at 22:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '22 at 00:42

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Example with iris data, removing some values of Sepal.Length:

library(tidyverse)
remove_values = c(5.1, 4.9, 4.7)
iris %>% 
  filter(!(Sepal.Length %in% remove_values))

answered Aug 20 '22 at 00:42

tauft

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I understand you may have included the internal parentheses after `!` for clarity, but worth noting that they aren't strictly necessary. – Dan Adams Aug 20 '22 at 01:04

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