oddvals <- seq(1, ncol(mydata), by=2)
mydata[,oddvals]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Nixon, Matthew <m.r.ni...@exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This might seem like a simple question but at the moment I am stuck for 
> ideas. The columns of my matrix in which some data is stored are of this form:
>
> X1     Y1     X2     Y2     X3     Y3     ...     Xn     Yn
>
> with n~100. I would like to look at just the X values (i.e. odd column 
> numbers). Is there an easy way to loop round extracting only these columns?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.


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