Filter Out the Cases from an Object in R Programming - filter() Function Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report filter() function in R Language is used to choose cases and filtering out the values based on the filtering expression. Syntax: filter(x, expr) Parameters: x: Object to be filtered expr: expression as a base for filtering Example 1: Python3 1== # R Program to filter cases # Loading library library(dplyr) # Create a data frame with missing data d <- data.frame( name = c("Abhi", "Bhavesh", "Chaman", "Dimri"), age = c(7, 5, 9, 16), ht = c(46, NA, NA, 69), school = c("yes", "yes", "no", "no") ) d # Finding rows with NA value filter(d, is.na(ht)) # Finding rows with no NA value filter(d, ! is.na(ht)) Output: name age ht school 1 Abhi 7 46 yes 2 Bhavesh 5 NA yes 3 Chaman 9 NA no 4 Dimri 16 69 no name age ht school 1 Bhavesh 5 NA yes 2 Chaman 9 NA no name age ht school 1 Abhi 7 46 yes 2 Dimri 16 69 no Example 2: Python3 1== # R Program to filter cases # Loading library library(dplyr) # Create a data frame d <- data.frame( name = c("Abhi", "Bhavesh", "Chaman", "Dimri"), age = c(7, 5, 9, 16), ht = c(46, NA, NA, 69), school = c("yes", "no", "yes", "no") ) d # Finding rows with school filter(d, school == "yes") # Finding rows with no school filter(d, school == "no") Output: name age ht school 1 Abhi 7 46 yes 2 Bhavesh 5 NA no 3 Chaman 9 NA yes 4 Dimri 16 69 no name age ht school 1 Abhi 7 46 yes 2 Chaman 9 NA yes name age ht school 1 Bhavesh 5 NA no 2 Dimri 16 69 no Create Quiz Comment N nidhi_biet Follow 0 Improve N nidhi_biet Follow 0 Improve Article Tags : R Language R Object-Function Explore IntroductionR Programming Language - Introduction 4 min read Interesting Facts about R Programming Language 4 min read R vs Python 5 min read Environments in R Programming 3 min read Introduction to R Studio 4 min read How to Install R and R Studio? 4 min read Creation and Execution of R File in R Studio 5 min read Clear the Console and the Environment in R Studio 2 min read Hello World in R Programming 2 min read Fundamentals of RBasic Syntax in R Programming 3 min read Comments in R 3 min read R-Operators 5 min read R-Keywords 2 min read R-Data Types 5 min read VariablesR Variables - Creating, Naming and Using Variables in R 5 min read Scope of Variable in R 5 min read Dynamic Scoping in R Programming 5 min read Lexical Scoping in R Programming 4 min read Input/OutputTaking Input from User in R Programming 7 min read Printing Output of an R Program 4 min read Print the Argument to the Screen in R Programming - print() Function 2 min read Control FlowControl Statements in R Programming 4 min read Decision Making in R Programming - if, if-else, if-else-if ladder, nested if-else, and switch 3 min read Switch case in R 2 min read For loop in R 5 min read R - while loop 5 min read R - Repeat loop 2 min read goto statement in R Programming 2 min read Break and Next statements in R 3 min read FunctionsFunctions in R Programming 5 min read Function Arguments in R Programming 4 min read Types of Functions in R Programming 6 min read Recursive Functions in R Programming 4 min read Conversion Functions in R Programming 4 min read Data StructuresData Structures in R Programming 4 min read R Strings 6 min read R-Vectors 4 min read R-Lists 6 min read R - Array 7 min read R-Matrices 10 min read R-Factors 4 min read R-Data Frames 6 min read Object Oriented ProgrammingR-Object Oriented Programming 7 min read Classes in R Programming 3 min read R-Objects 3 min read Encapsulation in R Programming 3 min read Polymorphism in R Programming 6 min read R - Inheritance 7 min read Abstraction in R Programming 3 min read Looping over Objects in R Programming 5 min read S3 class in R Programming 8 min read Explicit Coercion in R Programming 3 min read Error HandlingHandling Errors in R Programming 3 min read Condition Handling in R Programming 5 min read Debugging in R Programming 3 min read File HandlingFile Handling in R Programming 3 min read Reading Files in R Programming 9 min read Writing to Files in R Programming 2 min read Working with Binary Files in R Programming 5 min read Like