[R] how to delete a matrix column

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Rolf Turner wrote:

> Aimin Yan wrote:
> 
> > I am new to R, How to delete a matrix column.
> 
> e.g. y <- x[,-5] deletes column 5
> 
> I was going to point out to the inquirer where this feature
> is documented --- but I can't bleedin' find it!!!
> 
> Can anyone tell me?  I tried ?"[" but got no joy that
> I could discern.

`An Introduction to R', for one.

The help page for "[" is long enough, but needs to be split/have some 
xrefs added for things like this.

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