Dr Micha Campbell<p>Hey <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> hivemind, can someone sanity check me?</p><p>for some reason filtering with a value assigned to 'x' isn't working here (I was trying to make a dummy dataset for an lapply + ggplot problem I'm having, and instrad have bumped into this weird inconcistency).</p><p>df <- data.frame(name = c("delta^13*C", "delta^13*C", "delta^18*O", "delta^18*O"),<br> x = c(1,1, 2, 2),<br> y = c(1,3, 5, 4))</p><p>x <- "delta^13*C"</p><p> df %>% <br> filter(name == x)<br> <br> # [1] name x y <br> # <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)<br> <br> df %>% <br> filter(name == "delta^13*C")</p><p> # name x y<br> # delta^13*C 1 1<br> # delta^13*C 1 3</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/dplyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dplyr</span></a></p>