How about
data[ , colnames]
Or
data[ , colnames[1]]
data[ , colnames[2]]
-Don
On 7/9/10 11:27 AM, "Jonathan Flowers" <jonathanmflow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to extract columns from a data frame using a vector with the desired
> column names.
>
> This short example uses the select argument in the subset function to
> accomplish what I am trying to do. Is there a better solution?
>
> #names of desired columns
> colnames <- c("col1","col3")
>
> #my data
> data <- data.frame("col1"=c(1,2,3),"col2"=c("A","B","C"),"col3"=c(4,5,6))
>
> fun <- function(colname,dframe){
> nframe <- subset(dframe,select=colname)
> vec <- nframe[,1]
> return(vec)
> }
>
> fun(colnames[1],data)
> fun(colnames[2],data)
>
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