How to Delete Cases From a Data Set

Introduction

This article describes how to delete observations (respondents) from a data set.

A Displayr document with an imported data file in your Data Sets tree.
To edit, insert or delete data, you will need to first select your data set in the Data Sets tree and set the Unique identifier on the right to your unique ID variable or [Use case number].

There are two methods you can use:

Method 1: Removing cases from the raw data using a Filter

Select the name of your data set from the Data Sets tree.
Go to the object inspector > Properties > GENERAL > Unique identifier and select a variable with unique values, or select [Use case number].
Select any variables in your Data Sets tree that you wish to view as raw data, and right-click > View in Data Editor.
Select your filter variable in the Filter drop-down so that all the rows selected by the filter will appear in green. Here, we have applied our North filter while showing our Location data:
Now click the row header > Delete Row(s) Matching Filter to delete these cases from your data set.
OPTIONAL: You can return deleted cases to your data set by going back to the Data Editor and right-clicking the row header > Undelete All Rows.

Method 2: Removing cases from the raw data using the Raw Data Editor

Select the name of your data set from the Data Sets tree.
Go to the object inspector > Properties > GENERAL > Unique identifier and select a variable with unique values, or select [Use case number].
Select one or more variables (or combined variable set) in the Data Sets tree, then right-click (on the selected variables) and select View in Data Editor.
To delete an individual row:
1. Click the row header and select Delete Row(s). For example:
To delete multiple rows:
1. Ctrl-click each row individually to add them, or Shift-click to select a range of rows, and then right-click in a selected row and select Delete Row(s).