[R] Clear selected objects from workspace

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Wed Apr 23 12:01:42 CEST 2014


On 04/23/2014 07:54 PM, Bea GD wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I've got over a hundred R objects in the workspace. They all follow a
> pattern for years and months. Like this:
> TT_1981_1, TT_1981_2, TT_1981_3, . . . . TT_1981_12
> .
> .
> .
> TT_2010_1, . . .
>
> If now, I'd like to remove a selection of them, how is the best way to
> do it? Currently I need to use a big chunk of code.
>
> I've tried various things but they don't work.
> For instance:
> rm(paste("RR_", 1981:2010, "_1", sep=""))
> rm(list(paste("RR_", 1981:2010, "_1", sep="")))
>
Hi Beatriz,
Try this:

rm(list=paste("TT",1981:2010,"1",sep="_"))

Jim




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