[R] Simple question regarding name of column headers

[jim holtman]

subset(miceTrainSample, select = -plD50)

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Addi Wei <addiwei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> names(miceTrainSample)
> [1] "b_double"  "KierA2"    "KierFlex"  "Q_VSA_POS" "pID50"
>
> In the above code, how do I delete "pID50" column to store the resulting
> object without indicating column "5".  The code below does the trick, but I
> wish to delete the column by specifying "-pID50" instead of "5".
>
> names(miceTrainSample)[-5]
> [1] "b_double"  "KierA2"    "KierFlex"  "Q_VSA_POS"
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