I think this is what you want:
> df <- data.frame(x1=1:11,x2=2:12,x3=3:13,y=4:14)
> grep('^x',names(df))
[1] 1 2 3
The returned indexes refer to the column positions, so you could do:
>names(df)[grep('^x',names(df))]
[1] "x1" "x2" "x3"
or
>df[,grep('^x',names(df))]
x1 x2 x3
1 1 2 3
2 2 3 4
3 3 4 5
4 4 5 6
5 5 6 7
6 6 7 8
7 7 8 9
8 8 9 10
9 9 10 11
10 10 11 12
11 11 12 13
HTH
Schalk Heunis
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> data.frame(x1=1:11,x2=2:12,x3=3:13,y=4:14)
>
> I want to extract all the columns that with the name 'x?'. Is there a
> general way to do this in R?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
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