Remove Data Set Columns

DESCRIPTION:

Remove one or more columns from a data set.

This function requires the bigdata library section to be loaded.

USAGE:

bd.filter.columns(data, keep = NULL, drop = NULL)

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:

data
input data set, a bdFrame or data.frame.
keep
names or numbers of columns to be output. If NULL and drop is NULL, select all columns.
drop
names or numbers of columns to be excluded from the output. All other column will be output. Ignored if keep is specified.

VALUE:

A copy of the input data, with the specified columns retained or removed.

EXAMPLES:

## Remove column "Weight".
bd.filter.columns(fuel.frame, drop="Weight")