[R] Pulling columns out of a data.frame

[Jim Lemon]

Rachel Cunliffe wrote:
>
> ...I have a character vector eg c("name1","name2","name3") and I want to pull
> out these columns from a data.frame, converting each of these columns into
> factors also.

Assuming that the column in your data.frame is named "names", and the
data frame is named "mydat",

new.names<-as.factor(mydat["names"])

should give you the column of name types as a factor vector.

Jim
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