Peter Wilkinson wrote: > How does one remove columns either by name ("Exp1", "Exp2", "Exp3", ... > "Exp100") or by column number from a matrix or data.frame using a list of > names mynames = ("Exp10,"Exp20","Exp55","Exp67") > > I would something in the form of (I know this does not work): > > myMatrixEdited = myMatrix[,-mynames]
myMatrixEdited <- myMatrix[ , !(colnames(myMatrix) %in% mynames)] Uwe Ligges > > Or I would like to find the column numbers of the names in the list, and use > the column numbers to remove the columns in the matrix or data.frame. > > > Peter W. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html