[R] Removing columns from data frame

[Jens Nieschulze]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Daniel Mastropietro wrote:

%Hello,
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%Is there an easy way to remove a few columns from a data frame by 
%indicating the column names? I am thinking of an operator like the "-" to 

something like
yourDataFrame$columnName<-NULL

	JN

%remove the columns when referenced by column number, and I don't want to 
%use the %in% operator together with the names() function.
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%Thanks
%Daniel Mastropietro
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