Thanks, David. I appreciate your help. Your solution is the idea I also had but wasn't quite sure if it was allowed in this case. That's a simple fix.
Burnette From: David Winsemius [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n4669295...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:31 PM To: Crombie, Burnette N Subject: Re: assigning global columns selection for all subset functions in script On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:18 AM, bcrombie wrote: > How do I let R know that I always want to select the same columns in my > subset functions (below), so that I don't have to keep copy/pasting the same > selection? (thanks) > devUni2 <- subset(devUni1, dind02 != 52, > select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year)) Perhaps: devUni3 <- subset(devUni2, lfsr94 == 1 | lfsr94 == 2 , select=names(devUni2) ) Or just create a character vector: desired <- names(devUni2) devUni3 <- subset(devUni2, lfsr94 == 1 | lfsr94 == 2 , select=desired ) Because I am lazy I exprimented a bit to avoid adding all those quote marks: desired <- expression(paidhre, earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02, dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year) as.character(as.list(desired)) [1] "paidhre" "earnhre" "earnwke" "uhourse" "hourslw" "otc" "ind02" [8] "dind02" "occ00" "docc00" "lfsr94" "class94" "relref95" "smsastat" [15] "state" "weight" "year" > devUni4 <- subset(devUni3, class94 < 6 , > select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year)) > devUni5 <- subset(devUni4, relref95 < 10 | relref95 ==13 | relref95 >=14, > select=c(paidhre,earnhre,earnwke,uhourse,hourslw,otc,ind02,dind02,occ00,docc00,lfsr94,class94,relref95,smsastat,state,weight,year)) > -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ [hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4669295&i=0> 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. ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/assigning-global-columns-selection-for-all-subset-functions-in-script-tp4669252p4669295.html To unsubscribe from assigning global columns selection for all subset functions in script, click here<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4669252&code=YmNyb21iaWVAdXRrLmVkdXw0NjY5MjUyfC0xMzI5MzM0NzI3>. NAML<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/assigning-global-columns-selection-for-all-subset-functions-in-script-tp4669252p4669345.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
