Thanks very much, John.  This is very helpful.

Burnette

From: John Kane [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n4669297...@n4.nabble.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:35 PM
To: Crombie, Burnette N
Subject: Re: assigning global columns selection for all subset functions in 
script

index the columns to select
lets say you want to select a set of colmns 2,4,6,8
Try something like this. (not run)
mycols  <-  c(2,4,6,8)
select(mydata[ , mycols] , mdata$x == 3)
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

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> How do I let R know that I always want to select the same columns in my
> subset functions (below), so that I don't have to keep copy/pasting the
> same
> selection? (thanks)
> devUni2 <- subset(devUni1, dind02 != 52,
> select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year))
> devUni3 <- subset(devUni2, lfsr94 == 1 | lfsr94 == 2 ,
> select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year))
> devUni4 <- subset(devUni3, class94 < 6 ,
> select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year))
> devUni5 <- subset(devUni4, relref95 < 10 | relref95 ==13 | relref95
> >=14,
> select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year))
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