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This article is part of The Definitive Guide to Uploading and Preparing Data

You may not need to have every variable present in a dataset, for example, you have system information variables that aren't useful to your analysis. 

You have two options:

• Hiding variables (tucks them out of view, but you can find them again to unhide them)
• Removing variables (deletes them out of your dataset. This reduces your dataset's size)

In the web app

• How to hide a variable
• How to hide several variables
• How to delete a variable

Crunch Automation

• ORGANIZE command - specifically, ORGANIZE INTO HIDDEN

Using R

• Using R, there are two relevant functions: hideVariables() and deleteVariables().
• See: How to delete variables from your dataset with R