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Re:R for Excel Users by _Wintermute on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:11PM (#13662139)
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding, but you've always been able to slice on a vector of column names.

    cols <- c("colA", "colB")
    dataframe[, cols]
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Re:R for Excel Users by minimaxir on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:13PM (#13662154)
True, although not as a part of a dplyr chain, which is cleaner.
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Re:R for Excel Users by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:48PM (#13662444)
extract and extract2 from magrittr also work. I do normally use dplyr though.
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