Xonly <- XY[, grep("^X", dimnames(XY)[[2]])]
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Nixon, Matthew Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:20 AM To: r-help@R-project.org Subject: [R] Extracting only odd columns from a matrix 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.