[R] How to drop variables using a wildcard and logic...

[Benilton Carvalho]

if 'test' is your data frame...

test[, grep("[tT]$", names(test))]

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On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:06 PM, mtb954 at gmail.com wrote:

> Dear R users
>
> I would like to make a new dataframe  from an existing dataframe,  
> retaining
> ONLY those variables that end in the letter "t"
>
> I have searched the help archives and consulted several reference  
> books but
> cannot seem to find an example.
>
> Any ideas...? Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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