Did you try it? mydata %>% select( c( 1, 2, 4 ) )
On August 20, 2020 1:41:13 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de> wrote: >Dear useRs, > >I'm still trying to learn tidyverse syntax. > >I would like to select() columns based on their positions/indices, but >I >cannot find a way to do that (I've seen a lot about doing that for >rows, >but I could not find anything for columns). I thought it would be >obvious, but I cannot find it. > >Basically, I am looking for something like: >mydata %>% > select( vector_of_indices ) >I know that the pipe is useless here, but there are more steps in my >real code. > >The helper num_range() works only when headers contains the positions >(e.g. "x1, x2..."). > >Of course, it's easy using "[", but I expected it would be possible >with >select() as well; it would make the code more readable than: >mydata %>% > .[ vector_of_indices ] > >Thank you for your help. >Ivan -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.
