Terry Any good?
list <-"A B C N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 N10 Apples Bananas Peaches 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Oranges Kumquats Plums 1 1 3 5 5 5 7 6 6 12 Pears Kiwis Grapes 2 4 6 8 5 6 7 6 9 1" d = read.table(textConnection(list), header=TRUE) Nrowsums = apply(d[,sapply(d,is.numeric)],1,sum) HTH Pete -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Select-just-numeric-values-from-rows-tp3256237p3256670.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.