[R] write.csv: set the name of the column containing the row.names

Hi everybody, I am sorry if this is a silly question (I have tried to search it at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ but I get a 404 page). I have a script writing some data.frames to csv files. I write the csv files using the write.csv function and the option row.names=TRUE. Everything works

Re: [R] write.csv: set the name of the column containing the row.names

The argument is col.names, not colnames. Best, Ista On Mar 19, 2014 6:14 AM, Luca Cerone luca.cer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I am sorry if this is a silly question (I have tried to search it at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ but I get a 404 page). I have a script writing some

Re: [R] write.csv: set the name of the column containing the row.names

Thanks Ista, sorry it was a typo in my email, but in the code I have the right option. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ista Zahn istaz...@gmail.com wrote: The argument is col.names, not colnames. Best, Ista On Mar 19, 2014 6:14 AM, Luca Cerone luca.cer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody,

Re: [R] write.csv: set the name of the column containing the row.names

Thanks Duncan, I knew that, I wanted to know if there was some way not involving having to recreate the df. It is not a big issue in this case (they are not very big), but it might be problematic for big data frames. Thanks for advice on using col.names=NA. Cheers, Luca Luca Cerone Tel: +34 692

Re: [R] write.csv: set the name of the column containing the row.names

Hello, write.csv(df, row.names=TRUE, col.names=c(ID, colnames(df))) ,a,b A,1,3 B,2,4 C,3,5 Warning message: In write.csv(df, row.names = TRUE, col.names = c(ID, colnames(df))) : attempt to set 'col.names' ignored This gives a warning, not an error message. I've also tried setting col.names