Select Index Column By Excluding Columns Indexes

We can exclude the index columns by specifying in the c() vector with a – sign.

Syntax:

dataframe[,-c(column_indexes)]

Example:

R




# create a dataframe with 3 rows and 4 columns
data=data.frame(name=c("akash","kyathi","preethi"),
                subjects=c("java","R","dbms"),
                marks=c(90,98,78))
 
# exclude second and third column
print(data[,-c(2,3)])


Output:

[1] "akash"   "kyathi"  "preethi"

How to Select DataFrame Columns by Index in R?

In this article, we will discuss how to select columns by index from a dataframe in R programming language.

Note: The indexing of the columns in the R programming language always starts from 1.

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