how to remove a column from a dataframe in r code example

Example 1: r data frame remove column

df$columnName <- NULL

Example 2: remove column from matrix r

# Remove third column - by column number
MyMatrix <- MyMatrix[,-3]

# Remove third and fifth columns - by feeding the matrix a boolean vector
MyMatrix <- MyMatrix[,c(TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE)]

Example 3: how to exclude columns in r

> Data$genome <- NULL
> head(Data)
   chr region
1 chr1    CDS
2 chr1   exon
3 chr1    CDS
4 chr1   exon
5 chr1    CDS
6 chr1   exon