R help - Jul 2010 - Want to exclude a column when using sample function

For example: When I take a sample of 5 from 10 columns, I want to exclude
from the sample column 1 from being chosen.  How do I do this?  


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It's not really clear what the structure of your data is, nor how exactly
you
are sampling it (you need to provide an example), but you could try adding
this to the end of your sample command (if the result is a data.frame or
matrix): [,-1]

Tyler
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id pID50      apol     a_acc    a_acid     a_aro a_base   a_count
1 mol.11  3.63 -0.882267 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380      0 -1.063410
2 mol.14  3.38 -1.007330 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380      0 -1.063410
3 mol.19  3.18  1.153560  1.407910 -0.298197  1.254100      0  1.160080
4 mol.20  3.14  0.183448 -0.527967 -0.298197  0.873019      0  0.290021
5 mol.29  2.77 -0.273901 -0.527967 -0.298197  0.110860      0 -0.193347
6 mol.30  2.74 -0.230593 -0.527967 -0.298197  0.110860      0  0.000000
7 mol.40  2.16 -1.117550 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380      0 -1.256760
8 mol.45  1.90 -0.383560 -0.527967 -0.298197  0.110860      0 -0.290021
9 mol.48  1.73 -0.383560 -0.527967 -0.298197  0.110860      0 -0.290021


What if I want to exclude 2 columns?   
For example:   sample(data, 3, replace=FALSE)     ##from my sample, i want
to exclude both id and pID50

Thanks much.  
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