R help - Jul 2009 - Reordering the columns of my dataframe

Hi R-helpers,

I have written this line of code:
> data<-cbind(data[,1],data[,2:6],data[,18],data[,7:17])
to reorder the columns of my dataframe, but I'm losing the column names of
my 1st and 18th columns (they are now named data[,1] and data[,18]
respectively).

Can I use cbind to do this (without losing my column names) or is there
another way?

Many thanks,

Mark Na

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On 28/07/2009, at 9:45 AM, Mark Na wrote:
> Hi R-helpers,
>
> I have written this line of code:
>
>> data<-cbind(data[,1],data[,2:6],data[,18],data[,7:17])
>
> to reorder the columns of my dataframe, but I'm losing the column  
> names of
> my 1st and 18th columns (they are now named data[,1] and data[,18]
> respectively).
>
> Can I use cbind to do this (without losing my column names) or is  
> there
> another way?
Just do

	data <- data[,c(1:6,18,7:17)]

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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