Try this: FRAME$NAMETODELETE <- NULL
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: > Colleagues, > > Hopefully a simple problem: I want to delete a column with a known name from > a dataframe. I could write: > > FRAME <- FRAME[, names(FRAME) != NAMETODELETE] > or > FRAME <- FRAME[, !names(FRAME) %in% c(NAME1, NAME2, ETC)] > > Is there some simpler means to accomplish this? > > Dennis > > > Dennis Fisher MD > P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > Fax: 1-415-564-2220 > www.PLessThan.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.