extract values from a data frame based on a vector of row numbers in R

Question

I am trying to extract a vector of values from a data frame based on a vector of row numbers;

df<-iris
x<-c(1,5,15,8,7,2)

I want the corresponding Species of the row numbers listed in the vector x. I have tried something like df$Species[x,] and df$Species[list(x),] to no avail. I am sure the answer is something really simple but I just can't see it!

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try

df[x,]$Species

or

df[,"Species"][x]

or indeed

df[x,"Species"]