Hi Sarah and Jorge, ncol(). How elegant!
Thank you. Jorge Ivan Velez wrote: > > Dear culprit > Try this: > A[ , 4:ncol(A) ] > > HTH, > > Jorge > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, culpritNr1 <ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > >> >> Hello everybody >> >> How do you subset a data.frame when your boundaries are a combination of >> explicit and implicit limits? >> >> For example, I need to subset from the fourth (explicit) to the last >> (implicit) column a data.frame named A. >> >> In other languages you would do A[ , 4:]. Would anybody show me the R's >> way? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Your culprit >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/subsetting-of-a-data.frame-tp23655883p23655883.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/subsetting-of-a-data.frame-tp23655883p23656179.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.