help with pulling out data

[Frederica]

I am trying to pull out data from an excel data sheet in R. The data is organized like a site x species matrix. I would need to select all sites (row names) that contain values greater than 0 for a particular species (column names). But retain the data across all species for the selected sites in my new df. I tried subsetting but couldn't make it work. Thank you!

[andresrcs]

Hi Frederica, welcome!

We don't really have enough info to help you out. Could you ask this with a minimal REPRoducible EXample (reprex)? A reprex makes it much easier for others to understand your issue and figure out how to help.

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A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…