Rado, If you have a data.frame df like:
Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4 1 2 A B Then you should be able to do: df[,c("Col2","Col4")] to get the second and fourth columns. Sean On 7/5/04 8:53 AM, "Rado Bonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I'm coming back to R after while. I have a data frame with 200 columns, > each column has a name. How to extract all columns to a new dataset, but > the specified (by names) ones? > > I was playing with that for a little bit using the vector syntax but got > several syntax errors. > > > Thanks, > > Rado > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html