Hi, You need to tell R to look in the names component of your vector. Here are three different ways:
vect <- c(foo = 11, bar = 2, norf = 45) vect[!(names(vect) %in% c("foo"))] # easily generalizable to a longer list vect[!grepl("foo", names(vect))] vect[!(names(vect) == "foo")] There are many more ways to do this, all predicated on matching a string within the character vector containing the names of your object. Also, on this list we don't care at all if you're using R Studio, or what the version is. We do potentially care what version of R itself you are using. Sarah On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:41 PM, إبراهيم خطاب Ibrauheem Khat'taub <barhomopo...@gmail.com> wrote: > H > i All, > > If I have this vector: > >> vect <- c(foo = 11, bar = 2, norf = 45) > > I can have a subset that has only "bar and "norf" this way: >> vect[c("bar","norf")] > > Now how do I achieve the same by asking it for a subset that simply > excludes "foo"? I tried all these, resulting in errors: > > vect[-"foo"] > vect[-c("foo")] > vect[!"foo"] > vect[!c("foo")] > > Thanks! > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.