Hello Duncan Thank you so much it worked. I think I was doing it in a more complicated way so I didnt get a solution
Thank you very much once again Regards Sunita On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>wrote: > On 24/05/2009 12:21 PM, Sunita22 wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I have 2 datasets say Data1 and Data2 both are of different dimesions. >> Data1: >> 120 rows and 6 columns (Varname, Vartype, Labels, Description, ....) >> The column Varname has 120 rows which has variable names such id, age, >> gender,.....so on >> >> Data2: >> 12528 rows and 120 columns >> The column names in this case are V1, V2, ......... V120 (which are >> default >> names in R when we say head=F in read.csv) >> >> I want to assign the variable names from Data1 to Data2 as the column >> headings in Data2 i.e V1 should be id, V2 should be age, ...... so on >> >> Is it possible to do in R? >> I tired assigning variable names from Data1 in one object and transposing >> them and then used rbind but it doesnot work. >> >> Can I use colnames? I could not apply it in this case. Can any1 tell me >> how >> can i apply it for this case? >> > > names or colnames should work: > > colnames(Data2) <- Data1$Varname > > or > > names(Data2) <- Data1$Varname > > >> or should I paste the column names in csv file (from where I have imported >> the data) and then import in R? >> > > That's another way that would work. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Thank you in advance >> >> Regards >> Sunita >> >> >> > -- Our Thoughts have the Power to Change our Destiny. Sunita [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.