Hi Erin, One option woild be subset(), especially the "select" parameter.
HTH, Jorge On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Erin Hodgess <> wrote: > Dear R People: > > I have a data frame, xm1, which has 12 rows and 4 columns. > > If I put is xm1[,-4], I get all rows, and columns 1 - 3, which is as > it should be. > > Now, is there a way to use the names of the columns to omit them, please? > > Thanks so much in advance! > > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.