Drop data frame columns by name

Question

I have a number of columns that I would like to remove from a data frame. I know that we can delete them individually using something like:

df$x <- NULL
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Answer 1

Another solution if you don't want to use @hadley's above: If "COLUMN_NAME" is the name of the column you want to drop:

df[,-which(names(df) == "COLUMN_NAME")]