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On October 13, 2014 6:05:43 AM PDT, Charles Determan Jr <deter...@umn.edu> wrote: >You can use grep with some basic regex, index your dataframe, and >colSums > >colSums(df[,grep("*6574*|*7584*|*85*", colnames(df))]) >colSums(df[,grep("f6574*|f7584*|f85*", colnames(df))]) > > >Regards, >Dr. Charles Determan > >On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Kuma Raj <pollar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I want to sum columns based on their names. As an exampel how could I >> sum columns which contain 6574, 7584 and 85 as column names? In >> addition, how could I sum those which contain 6574, 7584 and 85 in >> ther names and have a prefix "f". My data contains several variables >> with >> >> I want to sum columns based on their names. As an exampel how could I >> sum columns which contain 6574, 7584 and 85 as column names? In >> addition, how could I sum those which contain 6574, 7584 and 85 in >> ther names and have a prefix "f". My data contains several variables >> with >> >> dput(df1) >> structure(list(date = structure(c(1230768000, 1230854400, 1230940800, >> 1231027200, 1231113600, 1231200000, 1231286400, 1231372800, >1231459200, >> 1231545600, 1231632000), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = >"UTC"), >> f014card = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), f1534card = c(0, >> 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1), f3564card = c(1, 6, 1, 5, >> 5, 4, 4, 7, 6, 4, 6), f6574card = c(3, 6, 4, 5, 5, 2, 10, >> 3, 4, 2, 4), f7584card = c(13, 6, 1, 4, 10, 6, 8, 12, 10, >> 4, 3), f85card = c(5, 3, 1, 0, 2, 10, 7, 9, 1, 7, 3), m014card = >c(0, >> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), m1534card = c(0, 0, 1, 0, >> 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0), m3564card = c(12, 7, 4, 7, 12, 13, >> 12, 7, 12, 2, 11), m6574card = c(3, 4, 8, 8, 8, 10, 7, 6, >> 7, 7, 5), m7584card = c(8, 10, 5, 4, 12, 7, 14, 11, 9, 1, >> 11), m85card = c(1, 4, 3, 0, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 0)), .Names = >c("date", >> "f014card", "f1534card", "f3564card", "f6574card", "f7584card", >> "f85card", "m014card", "m1534card", "m3564card", "m6574card", >> "m7584card", "m85card"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1", >> "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11")) >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> ______________________________________________ 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.