[R] The end of Matlab

[Patrick Burns]

How about:

x[, -seq(to=ncol(x), length=n)]


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Claudia Beleites wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>   
>> Learning to use the power of R's indexing and functios like head() and
>> tail() (which are just syntactic sugar) will probably lead you not to miss
>> this.
>>     
> However, how do I exclude the last columns of a data.frame or matrix (or, in 
> general, head and tail for given dimensions of an array)?
>
> I.e. something nicer than 
> t (head (t (x), -n))
> for excluding the last n columns of matrix x
>
> THX, Claudia
>
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