Way are you taking the forth argument of the paste
?paste("arunoff_",table_year,
sep="")[4]
Either way, way not use something like:
colnames(x)[column to change] <- "text, or pasted text"
Cheers,
Tal
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Steve Murray
<smurray444@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to assign a name to the fourth column whilst using
'assign', but
> keep encountering errors. What have I done wrong?!
>
> > assign(colnames(c(paste("arunoff_",table_year,
sep="")[4]), "COUNT"))
>
> Error in if (do.NULL) NULL else if (nc> 0) paste(prefix, seq_len(nc), :
> argument is not interpretable as logical
>
>
> Hope someone is able to help.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Steve
>
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