[R] Reorder data frame columns by negating list of names
jim holtman
jholtman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 18:41:27 CET 2008
try this:
> x <- read.table(textConnection(" a b c d e f g h
+ 1 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36
+ 2 2 7 12 17 22 27 32 37
+ 3 3 8 13 18 23 28 33 38
+ 4 4 9 14 19 24 29 34 39
+ 5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40"), header=TRUE)
> # initial columns
> init.cols <- c('b', 'd', 'h')
> # now get the remaining
> remaining <- setdiff(colnames(x), init.cols)
> x[,c(init.cols, remaining)]
b d h a c e f g
1 6 16 36 1 11 21 26 31
2 7 17 37 2 12 22 27 32
3 8 18 38 3 13 23 28 33
4 9 19 39 4 14 24 29 34
5 10 20 40 5 15 25 30 35
>
On Feb 12, 2008 12:19 PM, Thompson, David (MNR)
<David.John.Thompson at ontario.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to reorder columns in a data frame by their names as
> demonstrated below:
>
> Take this data frame:
> > xxx <- data.frame(matrix(1:40, ncol=8))
> > names(xxx) <- letters[1:8]
> > xxx
> a b c d e f g h
> 1 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36
> 2 2 7 12 17 22 27 32 37
> 3 3 8 13 18 23 28 33 38
> 4 4 9 14 19 24 29 34 39
> 5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
>
> and reorder the columns like this:
> > xxx[,c( c('b', 'd', 'h'), c('a', 'c', 'e', 'f', 'g') )]
> b d h a c e f g
> 1 6 16 36 1 11 21 26 31
> 2 7 17 37 2 12 22 27 32
> 3 8 18 38 3 13 23 28 33
> 4 9 19 39 4 14 24 29 34
> 5 10 20 40 5 15 25 30 35
>
> where I only have to name the columns that I'm interested in moving to
> the first few positions, something like:
> > xxx[,c( c('b', 'd', 'h'), -c('b', 'd', 'h') )]
> Error in -c("b", "d", "h") : invalid argument to unary operator
>
> Suggestions? and Thank you, DaveT.
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