[R] Accessing data

[Paul Lemmens]

Hoi TEMPL,

--On maandag 17 mei 2004 10:46 +0200 TEMPL Matthias 
<Matthias.Templ at statistik.gv.at> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to access my data frame without one variable.
>
> E.g.:
>> colnames(x)
> [1] "Besch"  "Ang.m"  "Arb.m"  "i10"    "Umsatz" "arbstd"
>
> I can try x[,-1], but this variable must be called by it´s name.
>
> x[,-"Besch"]
> x[,!"Besch"]
> attach(x)
> x[-Besch]
> ...
>
Try

x2 <- subset(x, select=-Besch)


kind regards,
Paul


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