"Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try this: > > subset(iris, select = - Species)
Or, canonically, nm <- names(iris) iris[, nm != "Species" ] iris[, -match("Species", nm)] > > On 2/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with the submitter that this needs some kind of solution. > > Although data.frame[,-12] works, how do I drop a named column (the > > most common use case)? (I found this bug while searching for an > > answer.) > > > > cheers > > David > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel