[R] a remove question

Hugo Mildenberger Hugo.Mildenberger at web.de
Sun Jan 16 22:26:12 CET 2011


How about

   ls(pattern="NY")
   #rm(list=ls(pattern="NY"))



On Sunday 16 January 2011 22:08:16 Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
> 
> I have the following:
> 
> > ls(pattern="NY*")
>  [1] "CRAN_df"      "CRAN_df0"     "CRAN_df1"     "CRAN_mat"     "CRAN_sp"
>  [6] "CRAN_spdf1"   "CRAN_spdf2"   "CRAN_spdf4"   "delauney_NY"  "dist2_NY"
> [11] "dist3_NY"     "Gabriel_NY"   "NY8a_nb"      "rel_neigh_NY" "scot_BNG"
> [16] "SOI_NY"
> > rm(pattern="NY*")
> Warning message:
> In rm(pattern = "NY*") : object 'NY*' not found
> >
> 
> How do I remove all of NY* items, please?  I suspect it might be an sapply issue
> thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
>



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