I constantly define variable lists from a data frame (e.g., to define a
regression equation). Line 3 below does just that. Placing each variable
name in quotation marks is too much work especially for a long list so I
do that with line 4. Is there an easier way to accomplish this----to
define a list of variable names containing "a","c","e"? Thank you!
> data<-as.data.frame(matrix(1:30,nrow=6))
> colnames(data)<-c("a","b","c","d","e"); data
a b c d e
1 1 7 13 19 25
2 2 8 14 20 26
3 3 9 15 21 27
4 4 10 16 22 28
5 5 11 17 23 29
6 6 12 18 24 30
> x1<-c("a","c","e"); x1 # line 3
[1] "a" "c" "e"
> x2<-colnames(subset(data,select=c(a,c,e))); x2 # line 4
[1] "a" "c" "e"
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