select() columns using their positions
OK, my bad... I'm sure I had tried it and it didn't work, but I guess the error was somewhere else... Thank you! Ivan -- Dr. Ivan Calandra TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution Schloss Monrepos 56567 Neuwied, Germany +49 (0) 2631 9772-243 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
On 20/08/2020 11:03, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Did you try it? mydata %>% ? select( c( 1, 2, 4 ) ) On August 20, 2020 1:41:13 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calandra at rgzm.de> wrote:
Dear useRs, I'm still trying to learn tidyverse syntax. I would like to select() columns based on their positions/indices, but I cannot find a way to do that (I've seen a lot about doing that for rows, but I could not find anything for columns). I thought it would be obvious, but I cannot find it. Basically, I am looking for something like: mydata %>% ? select( vector_of_indices ) I know that the pipe is useless here, but there are more steps in my real code. The helper num_range() works only when headers contains the positions (e.g. "x1, x2..."). Of course, it's easy using "[", but I expected it would be possible with select() as well; it would make the code more readable than: mydata %>% ? .[ vector_of_indices ] Thank you for your help. Ivan