On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:> Hi all (again) > > Sorry to bother you with this lame question, but since I have not been > able to find the answer in the manuals.. > How do I change the name of a variable in a data.frame?? > (Without copying hte entire fram to another one of course..)via names: DF <- data.frame(a=1, b=2) names(DF)[2] <- "bb" DF a bb 1 1 2 (Actually, that does make a copy internally). -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi all (again) Sorry to bother you with this lame question, but since I have not been able to find the answer in the manuals.. How do I change the name of a variable in a data.frame?? (Without copying hte entire fram to another one of course..) /Fredrik -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Fredrik Karlsson <fredrik.karlsson at ling.umu.se> writes:>Hi all (again) > >Sorry to bother you with this lame question, but since I have not been >able to find the answer in the manuals.. >How do I change the name of a variable in a data.frame?? >(Without copying hte entire fram to another one of course..)Use names(). Mark -- Mark Myatt -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._