[R] Deleting colmuns with 0's and also writing multple csv files

[Peter Dalgaard]

(Forgot to cc. reply to K. Elo, apologies if you get it twice)

K. Elo wrote:
> Dear Anna,
> 
> 19.02.2010 08:17, Anna Carter wrote:
>> (1) If the dataset contains some variables having all the entries = 0
>> and while analysing I want to delete those pericular columns, how do
>> acheive this. i.e.
> 
> Let's suppose 'df' is your data frame, then:
> 
> subset(df, select=which(colSums(df)!=0))
> 
> should do the work :)


Beware negative entries in df! which(colSums(df!=0)) may work better,
but it is a bit "sneaky".

I'd also avoid subset in favour of df[....] or  df[,....]. And why use
indexing with which() when you can use the logical index directly?

My preference goes to df[,apply(df,2,any)] (a student assistant once
almost killed me when I showed her that after she had spent days
programming the same thing using loops and whatnots...)

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