[R] Splitting up of a dataframe according to the type of variables

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Mon Dec 17 13:50:43 CET 2012


Hello,

Try the following.

dat <- data.frame(X = rnorm(10), Y = factor(sample(letters, 10)), Z = 1:10)

num <- sapply(dat, is.numeric)
dat[num]

# or
dat[, num]


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 17-12-2012 10:02, Martin Spindler escreveu:
> Dear R users,
>
> I have a dataframe which consists of variables of type numeric and factor.
> What is the easiest way to split up the dataframe to two dataframe which contain all variables of the type numeric resp. factors?
>
> Thank you very much for your efforts in advance!
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>
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