Perhaps, names(which.max(sapply(DF, max)))
On 15/10/2007, Lauri Nikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Suppose I have a data.frame like this > > Lines <- "var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 > > 0 2 1 2 0 0 > 2 3 7 6 0 1 > 1.5 4 9 9 6 0 > 1.0 6 10 22 3 3 > " > DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), skip=1) > names(DF) <- scan(textConnection(Lines), what = "", nlines = 1) > > How do I find the name of the variable which has the maximum value of > the data.frame? In this example the answer is "var3" (22). > > Best regards, > Lauri > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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