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Deleting data.frame columns

Source: R/delete_columns_data.frame.R
delete_columns_data.frame.Rd

This function deletes columns of a data.frame by name.

Usage

delete_columns_data.frame(df, column_names)

Arguments

df

[data.frame]
A data.frame.

column_names

[character()]
The name(s) of column(s) of df to delete.

Value

The input df without the columns defined by column_names.

See also

Other data.frame helpers: group_data.frame(), round_data.frame()

Examples

df <- data.frame("label" = c("A", "B"), "number" = 1:10)
delete_columns_data.frame(df = df, column_names = "label")
#>    number
#> 1       1
#> 2       2
#> 3       3
#> 4       4
#> 5       5
#> 6       6
#> 7       7
#> 8       8
#> 9       9
#> 10     10
delete_columns_data.frame(df = df, column_names = "number")
#>    label
#> 1      A
#> 2      B
#> 3      A
#> 4      B
#> 5      A
#> 6      B
#> 7      A
#> 8      B
#> 9      A
#> 10     B
delete_columns_data.frame(df = df, column_names = c("label", "number"))
#> data frame with 0 columns and 10 rows