[R] How do you delete variables from a data frame?

Göran Broström gb at stat.umu.se
Mon Feb 4 12:24:49 CET 2002


On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Stuart Leask wrote:

> Is there a simple way of removing variables from a dataframe?
> 
> - rm(dataframe$VAR) doesn't seem to work
> - Copying all but the unwanted variables into a new data frame is awkward
> when there are a lot of variables.
> - I haven't found any references to this in the help files.

dataframe$VAR <- NULL

Göran

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