R help - Oct 2005 - select only the numeric variables

Dear all, how can I select only the numeric (or character) variables from a
date.frame?

Best regards

lamack lamack wrote:
> Dear all, how can I select only the numeric (or character) variables from a
> date.frame?
> 
> Best regards
> 
Try:

x[sapply(x, is.numeric)]

x[sapply(x, is.character)]

where `x' is your data.frame.

--sundar

library(MASS)
anorexia[,sapply(anorexia, is.numeric)]

lamack lamack wrote:
> Dear all, how can I select only the numeric (or character) variables from a
> date.frame?
> 
> Best regards
> 
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