[R] how to select out some columns using cbind()

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 01:35:46 CEST 2008


newdata1 <- data1[, seq(from=2, to=ncol(data1), by=7)]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM, ss <affysnp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! I have a matrix:
>
>> dim(data1)
> [1] 34176   581
>
> of 34176 rows and 581 columns,
>
> I want to make a new matrix data2 by taking the 2nd column, 9th column, 16th
> column....
>
> the column number is in the order of:
>
> 2
> 9 (2+7)
> 16 (9+7)
> 23 (16+7)
> ...
>
> the new matrix data2 should include 83 columns, is there an easy way to
> do that using cbind() function?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Allen
>
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