x <- new[-match("ID"), names(new))] Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 7:10 AM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > this is a very simple question but... > what is the vector alternative to `subset(dataframe, select = - column)`? > I tried with: > ``` > > x = new[-ID] > Error in `[.data.frame`(new, -ID) : object 'ID' not found > > x = new[-"ID"] > Error in -"ID" : invalid argument to unary operator > > x = new[[-"ID"]] > Error in -"ID" : invalid argument to unary operator > > x = new[-["ID"]] > Error: unexpected '[' in "x = new[-[" > ``` > Thank you > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.