There might be more elegant ways, but this will do it:

test<-test[-match("Y",names(test))]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Knut Krueger wrote:

Hi to all,
test <- data.frame("X"=c(1:4),"Y"=c(5:8),"Z"=c(8:11))
test <- test[,-2]

Is there a way to specify the col name "Y" to delete instead the number?

Kind regards Knut

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