Delete rows that exist in another data frame? [duplicate]

Question

I have the two following data frames (example):

df1:

name    profile    type    strand A       4.5        1       + B       3.2        1       + C       5.5        1       + D       14.0       1       - E       45.1       1       - F       32.8       1       - G       19.9       1       + 

df2:

name A B C G 

I would like to delete the rows in df1 for which df1$name = df2$name to get the following:

Output:

name    profile    type    strand D       14.0       1       - E       45.1       1       - F       32.8       1       - 

If anyone could tell me which piece of code to use it would be a lot of help, seemed simple at first but I've been messing it up since yesterday.

Answer 1

You need the %in% operator. So,

df1[!(df1$name %in% df2$name),] 

should give you what you want.

• df1$name %in% df2$name tests whether the values in df1$name are in df2$name
• The ! operator reverses the result.