R - Using rbind with list of data frames and a subset of columns

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How can I rbind a list of data frames using only specific columns? Something like do.call(rbind, data) works fine, but I dont't know how to exclude a vector of specific columns. Dropping unnecessary columns afterwards seems is ok, but maybe there is a cleaner way to do this?

See: [How to drop columns by name in a data frame](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5234117/how-to-drop-columns-by-name-in-a-data-frame) — Jaap, Feb 03 '16 at 12:19
Do you want to `merge` or `rbind`? You need to get your definitions straight. — David Arenburg, Feb 03 '16 at 12:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '16 at 13:29

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I can simply use subset (thanks to @Jaap):

do.call(rbind, lapply(data, subset, select=c("use_this", "and_this")))

answered Feb 03 '16 at 13:29

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