R help - Feb 2008 - Column sums from a data frame (without the column headers)

Does anyone know how to get a vector of column sum from a data frame?   
You can use colSums(), but this gives you a object of type "numeric"  
with the column labels in the first row, and the sums in the second  
row.  I just want a vector of the sums, and I can't figure out a way  
to index the "numeric" object.

Thanks!

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Here is an example; I am not sure what problem you are having with
'indexing' since you did not show an example.
> x <- data.frame(a=1:10, b=21:30, c=41:50)
> y <- colSums(x)
> y
  a   b   c
 55 255 455
> # indexing into y
> y[1]
 a
55
> # same as
> y["a"]
 a
55
>
>
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Jason Horn <jhorn at bu.edu>
wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get a vector of column sum from a data frame?
> You can use colSums(), but this gives you a object of type
"numeric"
> with the column labels in the first row, and the sums in the second
> row.  I just want a vector of the sums, and I can't figure out a way
> to index the "numeric" object.
>
> Thanks!
>
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