Dear List Members,I have 55 data frames, each of which with 272 variables and 
267 observations. Some of these variables are blanks but the blanks are not the 
same for every data frame. I would like to write a procedure in which I import 
a data frame, see which variables are blank, and delete those variables. My 
data frames have variables named P1 to P136 and Q1 to Q136. 
I have a couple of questions regarding this issue:
1) Is a loop an efficient way to address this problem? If not, what are my 
alternatives and how do I implement them?2) I have been playing with a single 
data frame to try to figure out a way of having R go through the columns and 
see which ones it should delete. I have figured out how to delete rows with 
missing data (newdata <- na.omit(olddata)) but how do I do it for columns???
Thank you very much for your help and have a great weekend!
Rita ________________________________________ "If you think education is 
expensive, try ignorance"--Derek Bok


                                          
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