Great, Thanks. Now I have many options.
Steven from iPhone
> On Feb 13, 2023, at 10:52 AM, Andrew Simmons <akwsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I meant is that that
>
> mydata[, !grepl("^yr", colnames(mydata)), drop = FALSE]
>
> and
>
> mydata[!grepl("^yr", colnames(mydata))]
>
> should be identical. Some people would prefer the first because the
> indexing looks the same as matrix indexing, whereas some people would
> prefer the second because it is more efficient. However, I would argue
> it is exactly as efficient. You can see from the first few lines of
> `[.data.frame` when the first index is missing and the second is
> provided, it does almost the same thing as if only the first index
> provided.
>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:38 PM Steven Yen <st...@ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>>
>> x[“V2”] would retain columns of x headed by V2. What I need is the
>> opposite——I need a data grime with those columns excluded.
>>
>> Steven from iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 9:33 AM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 14:57:36 -0800
>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>> x["V2"]
>>
>>
>> is more efficient than using drop=FALSE, and perfectly normal syntax
>>
>> (data frames are lists of columns).
>>
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
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