Hi,
Am new to J (from APL) and am having trouble with selective assignment .
I understand that in J the equivalent is to use Amend. 
Given:
   ]table=.4 2$ ;:'taa tas ewe wtw tweqewqwq 4212 fgsaera jihjy'
   ]newcol=. ;:'mean to been formed'
   ]newrow=. ;:'thra rowskd'

Lets say I want to replace the 2nd column of table with a new column.
The following works:   
   newcol (0 1;1 1;2 1;3 1)}table

But this doesn't:
   newcol 1}"1 table
|rank error
|   newcol     1}"1 table

But does work for a row
   newrow 1} table
Or
   newrow 1}"2 table

The following works but seems cludgey 
   |: newcol 1} |: table

I have a feeling that maybe my understanding of rank isn't quite right
yet! Can anyone help?
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