eldNew <- eld[-14,]
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for a start ...
For ‘[’-indexing only: ‘i’, ‘j’, ‘...’ can be logical vectors, indicating elements/slices to select. Such vectors are recycled if necessary to match the corresponding extent. ‘i’, ‘j’, ‘...’ can also be negative integers, indicating elements/slices to leave out of the selection.
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edit: looking around I notice How to delete the first row of a dataframe in R? , which has the answer ... seems like the title should have popped to your attention if you were looking for answers on SO?
edit 2: I also found How do I delete rows in a data frame? , searching SO for delete row data frame
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Also http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:remove_rows_data_frame