R help - May 2012 - Change One Column Name in Data Frame

The data frame has 61 columns and one column name needs to be changed. The
colnames() function can be used to change all of them when passed a vector
of names, but can it also change a single name? If not, is there a way to
change just the one column name?

Rich

x <- data.frame(a = 1:5, b = rnorm(5))

colnames(x)

colnames(x)[2] <- "Cow"

x

HTH,
Michael

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at
appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> ?The data frame has 61 columns and one column name needs to be changed. The
> colnames() function can be used to change all of them when passed a vector
> of names, but can it also change a single name? If not, is there a way to
> change just the one column name?
>
> Rich
>
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On Tue, 15 May 2012, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> colnames(x)[2] <- "Cow"
Michael,

   Thank you.

Rich