[R] How do you delete variables from a data frame?

[Jens Nieschulze]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Stuart Leask wrote:

%Is there a simple way of removing variables from a dataframe?
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%- rm(dataframe$VAR) doesn't seem to work
%- Copying all but the unwanted variables into a new data frame is awkward
%when there are a lot of variables.
%- I haven't found any references to this in the help files.

dataframe$VAR<-NULL

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