Deleting a column

Columns can likewise be deleted using :=NULL, as follows:

dstate[,IncomeGreaterThan5000:=NULL] 
 
## We can delete multiple columns as well 
dstate[,c("AreaLessThan5000","Abb","Division"):=NULL]

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