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I am finding complex analyses easier than some elementary operations in R. In particular I want to do some low level exploratory data analyses with data in a data frame but cannot find commands to easily insert, remove (delete), rename, and re-order (arbitrarily, not sort) columns. I see that the micEcon package has an insertCol command, but that is for matrices, not data frames. I have looked

I'm coming out with all the classic problems today ;-) Can anyone tell me how to change the column names of an already existing data frame? I've read the docs for ?data.frame and ?as.data.frame but can't figure it out. I want to make a new data.frame from some of the columns of an existing data.frame, but when I do that, the new data.frame columns have the same names as the old