?subset
subset(dframe, select=c("name1", "name2", "name3"))
Michael Reinecke wrote:
> Hi! I suspect there must be an easy way to access components of a data frame
> by name, i.e. the input should look like "name1 name2 name3 ..." and the
> output be a data frame of those components with the corresponding names. I
> ´ve been trying for hours, but only found the long way to do it (which is not
> feasible, since I have lots of components to select):
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> dframe[names(dframe)=="name1" | dframe=="name2" | dframe=="name3"]
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> Do you know a shortcut?
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> Michael
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