without: Remove Elements from a Named Object
In Kmisc: Kevin Miscellaneous

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Removes elements from an R object with the names attribute set in a 'lazy' way. The first argument is the object, while the second is a set of names parsed from .... We return the object, including only the elements with names not matched in ....

1	without(x, ...)

`x`	An R object with a `names` attribute.
`...`	an optional number of 'names' to match in `x`.

We can be 'lazy' with how we pass names. The names passed to ... are not evaluated directly; rather, their character representation is taken and used for extraction.

extract

dat <- data.frame( x=c(1, 2, 3), y=c("a", "b", "c"), z=c(4, 5, 6) )
## all of these return identical output
dat[ !( names(dat) %in% c("x","z") ) ]
without(dat, x, z)