Select column 2 to last column in R

Question

I have a data frame with multiple columns. Now, I want to get rid of the row.names column (column 1), and thus I try to select all the other columns.

E.g.,

Answer 1

To build on Freeman's answer, Tidyverse allows dots as replacement for the piped data object, which can be useful to simplify code with repetitive references to the object.

library(tidyverse)

newdata <- olddata %>% select( 2:ncol(.) )

or

newdata <- olddata %>% .[,2:ncol(.)]