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2009 Oct 03
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getting variables based on name
I have a file like this:
a1,a2,a3,b1,b2,b3
1,2,3,4,5,6
0,1,2,3,4,5
...
In interactive command-line R, I type
data<-read.table('file.txt', sep=',', header=TRUE)
I then want to get all the columns which start with the letter a. For this
particular file, I can the type:
data[1:3]
What if i don't know that the columns that start with 'a' are columns 1-3?
Is there