[R] extract columns from a dataframe

[Prof Brian Ripley]

myDF[! names(myDF) %in% not_wanted]

if I understand you aright.  E.g.

library(MASS)
hills[! names(hills) %in% "climb"]

which can also be done by

subset(hills, select=-climb)

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Rado Bonk wrote:

> I'm coming back to R after while. I have a data frame with 200 columns, 
> each column has a name. How to extract all columns to a new dataset, but 
> the specified (by names) ones?

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