If you know the value of k then you could do the following:
goodNames <- paste("V",1:k,sep="")
ind <- which(colnames(df) %in% goodNames)
df[,ind]
(where df is your dataframe).
P.S. I won't be surprised if df[,goodNames] is all right too (have not checked).
--- On Fri, 20/6/08, Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [R] Howto access V-base only column in a data frame
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: Friday, 20 June, 2008, 1:27 PM
> Hi,
>
> Suppose I have the following data frame:
>
> V1 V2 V3 var
> 1 100 200 400 2.3
> 2 40.5 1.2 20.3
> ...
>
> In this example the maximum V column is 3.
> In my code there the column number can be varied.
>
> My question is how can I access data frame
> from column V1 up to Vk (some "k" and
> excluding'var' column)?
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
> Jakarta - Indonesia
>
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