[R] select() columns using their positions

[Ivan Calandra]

Dear useRs,

I'm still trying to learn tidyverse syntax.

I would like to select() columns based on their positions/indices, but I
cannot find a way to do that (I've seen a lot about doing that for rows,
but I could not find anything for columns). I thought it would be
obvious, but I cannot find it.

Basically, I am looking for something like:
mydata %>%
  select( vector_of_indices )
I know that the pipe is useless here, but there are more steps in my
real code.

The helper num_range() works only when headers contains the positions
(e.g. "x1, x2...").

Of course, it's easy using "[", but I expected it would be possible with
select() as well; it would make the code more readable than:
mydata %>%
  .[ vector_of_indices ]

Thank you for your help.
Ivan

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