createSubset {RNAither} | R Documentation

## Creating a subset of a dataset according to a certain column value

### Description

Creates a subset of a dataset containing all wells/lines having a certain value in a specified column.

### Usage

    createSubset(dataset, listIDs, equalTo)

### Arguments

`dataset` | an R data frame generated with `generateDatasetFile`
`listIDs` | a character string and one of the following: `Spotnumber, Internal_GeneID, GeneName, SpotType, SigIntensity, SDSIntensity, Background, LabtekNb, RowNb, ColNb, ScreenNb, NbCells, PercCells, ...`
`equalTo` | A value or character string specifying the value in the chosen column, e.g. all wells on plate 2

### Value

A subset of the dataset containing only the wells/lines having a certain value in a specified column.

### See Also

`indexSubset`

### Examples

    data(exampleDataset, package="RNAither")

    subset <- createSubset(dataset, dataset$LabtekNb, 2)

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