[R] Deleting a column in a dataframe by name

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 22:13:30 CEST 2009


Try this:

FRAME$NAMETODELETE <- NULL

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Hopefully a simple problem: I want to delete a column with a known name from
> a dataframe.  I could write:
>
>        FRAME   <- FRAME[, names(FRAME) != NAMETODELETE]
> or
>        FRAME   <- FRAME[, !names(FRAME) %in% c(NAME1, NAME2, ETC)]
>
> Is there some simpler means to accomplish this?
>
> Dennis
>
>
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