> I have a list of column names: > >names.species.bio.18=c("Achimillb","Agrosmitb","Amorcaneb","Andrgerab","Ascltubeb","Elymcanab","Koelcrisb","Lespcapib","Liataspeb","Lupipereb","Monafistb","Panivirgb","Petapurpb","Poaprateb","Querellib","Quermacrb","Schiscopb","Sorgnutab") > > I want to select the column numbers which correspond to these names in my > data frame: > >which(colnames(data)==names.species.bio.18)
How about: num<-1:length(colnames(data)) num[colnames(data) %in% names.species.bio.18] hth Stefan -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser ______________________________________________ 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.