Hi, Just two variant's of David's solution: idx<-apply(mydata[-1],2,function(x) any(!x %in% c(0,5))) idx x1 x2 x3 x4 TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE idx<-c(TRUE,idx) mydata[,idx] #second idx<-apply(mydata[-1],2,function(x) all(ifelse(x!=0 & x!=5,TRUE,FALSE ))) mydata[,c(TRUE,idx)] n x1 1 5 2 2 5 3 3 5 1 4 5 3 A.K.
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