Dear Gundala, Try this: > ex<-paste("V",3:9,sep="") > new.dat<-dat[,ex] > new.dat
HTH, Jorge On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Gundala Viswanath <gunda...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > I have the following data frame: > > > dat > V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 > 1 1 AAAACACCCACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 9.0 18 12.00 18.0 15.0 12.0 6.0 > 2 1 ACGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTTCC 18.0 8 12.00 18.0 15.0 12.0 18.0 > 3 1 ACTACTGCTCCCCCCCCACTCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 15.0 8 12.00 12.0 18.0 12.0 12.0 > 4 1 ACTTATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTTT 15.0 6 18.00 6.0 18.0 15.0 9.0 > 5 1 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 21.0 21 21.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 6 1 CTACACTCTTTCCCTACACGCCGCTCTTCCGATC 21.0 21 21.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 7 1 TACACCGCCCCCCCCCATCTCCACACTCTCCCCC 12.0 21 12.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 8 1 TGATACGCCTACCACCGCCCTCTACACTCTCTCC 15.0 9 18.00 18.0 15.0 15.0 6.0 > 9 1 TGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTCTCC 21.0 21 21.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 10 4 TGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTTTCC 19.5 18 15.75 19.5 16.5 19.5 18.0 > 11 1 TGATACGGCGACCACCGAGGATCTACACTCTTTC 21.0 21 21.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 12 1 TGATACGGCGACCACCGAGGATCTCCACTCTCTC 21.0 21 21.00 21.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 > 13 2 TGCTCCGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTTTCC 18.0 8 12.00 18.0 13.5 18.0 13.5 > 14 1 TTATACGTCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTCTCC 18.0 18 18.00 18.0 18.0 18.0 15.0 > 15 1 TTCTCCGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTCTTTCC 18.0 7 9.00 18.0 12.0 18.0 15.0 > 16 1 TTCTCCGGCGACCACCGCGATCTACACTCTTTCC 18.0 7 9.00 18.0 12.0 18.0 15.0 > > > My question is how can I extract the column V3 up to V9 into another > new data frame. > > I tried this but failed: > str <- paste("V", 3:9, sep="") > print(dat$str) > > > > > - Gundala Viswanath > Jakarta - Indonesia > > ______________________________________________ > 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.