Hi Knut,
> test <- data.frame("X"=c(1:4),"Y"=c(5:8),"Z"=c(8:11))
> test <- test[,-2]
>
> Is there a way to specify the col name "Y" to delete instead the number?
test[,colnames(test)!="Y"]
test[,!colnames(test)%in%"Y"]
test[,-grep("Y",colnames(test))]
bw,
Marianne
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R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
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