R help - Oct 2008 - Selecting numeric data from a data frame

Hi

I have a data frame containing numeric and factor data.
I want to extract the numeric data only. How can this be done?

Thanks
Meir




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Meir Preiszler wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a data frame containing numeric and factor data.
> I want to extract the numeric data only. How can this be done?
>
> Thanks
> Meir
>
>   
d[sapply(d,is.numeric)]

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