[R] Is there a quicker way to drop a data frame column than setting it to NULL?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try:

subset(df, select = - c(x, y, z))

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Dimitri Shvorob
<dimitri.shvorob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I want to drop columns x, y, z from dataframe df, is there a better
> alternative to
>
> df$x = NULL
> df$y = NULL
> df$z = NULL
>
> There are sufficiently many columns remaining to make
>
> df = subset(df, select = c(a,b,c,d[etc]))
>
> cumbersome.
>
> Thank you.
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