[R] remove columns containing all zeros (or other value)

[Gustavo Carvalho]

You can also try this:

x[,-(which(colSums(x) == 0))]

Cheers,

Gustavo.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Anthony Dick <adick at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I would like to remove the columns of a matrix that contain all zeros. For
> example, from
> x<-matrix(c(1,5,3,2,1,4,0,0,0), ncol=3,nrow=3)
>
> I would like to remove the third column. However, because this is in a loop
> I need a way to first determine which columns are all zeros, and only then
> remove them. I.e., I don't know which column of x contains all zeros until
> after x is created.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anthony
>
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