[R] deleting column from data frame

[Todd Ogden]

There might be more elegant ways, but this will do it:

test<-test[-match("Y",names(test))]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Knut Krueger wrote:

> Hi to all,
> test <- data.frame("X"=c(1:4),"Y"=c(5:8),"Z"=c(8:11))
> test <- test[,-2]
>
> Is there a way to specify the col name  "Y" to delete instead the  
> number?
>
> Kind regards Knut
>
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