drop_col: Drop column or columns

In HughParsonage/hutils: Miscellaneous R Functions and Aliases

Drop column or columns

Description

Drop column or columns

Usage

drop_col(DT, var, checkDT = TRUE)

drop_cols(DT, vars, checkDT = TRUE)

Arguments

DT	A data.table.
var	Quoted column to drop.
checkDT	Should the function check DT is a data.table?
vars	Character vector of columns to drop. Only the intersection is dropped; if any vars are not in names(DT), no warning is emitted.

Value

DT with specified columns removed.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("data.table", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(data.table)
  DT <- data.table(x = 1, y = 2, z = 3)
  
  drop_col(DT, "x")
}

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