Hi Knut, > test <- data.frame("X"=c(1:4),"Y"=c(5:8),"Z"=c(8:11)) > test <- test[,-2] > > Is there a way to specify the col name "Y" to delete instead the number?
test[,colnames(test)!="Y"] test[,!colnames(test)%in%"Y"] test[,-grep("Y",colnames(test))] bw, Marianne -- Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London http://promberger.info R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Ubuntu 9.10 ______________________________________________ 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.