[R] How to exclude a column by name?

[Paul Hiemstra]

Zeljko Vrba wrote:
> Given an arbitrary data frame, it is easy to exclude a column given its index:
> df[,-2].  How to do the same thing given the column name?  A naive attempt
> df[,-"name"] did not work :)
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Hi,

This piece of code does the trick. Most important is the which() command:

df = data.frame(a = runif(10), b = runif(10))
df[,-which(names(df) == "a")]

cheers,
Paul

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