Thanks. That worked.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Phil Spector <spector@stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Suppose your matrix is called "x".  Then
>
>    x[,seq(1,ncol(x),n)]
>
> will give you what you want.
>
>                                       - Phil Spector
>                                         Statistical Computing Facility
>                                         Department of Statistics
>                                         UC Berkeley
>                                         spector@stat.berkeley.edu
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, akintayo holder wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>> I have a matrix and I want to create a matrix that includes every nth
>> column
>> of the original matrix. Does anyone know how I can go about doing that ?
>> Or
>> if you have an idea how I can do the same thing with a data frame ? If you
>> can just point me towards the appropriate function I would appreciate it.
>> Thanks
>>
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