> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of arun > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:56 AM > To: farnoosh sheikhi > Cc: R help > Subject: Re: [R] changing colnames > > Hi, > You could try: > dat1<- read.table(text=" > X1,X2,X3 > age,race,stat > 12,2,35 > 17,6,55 > ",sep=",",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > colnames(dat1)<- dat1[1,] > dat1<- dat1[-1,] > dat1[]<-lapply(dat1,as.numeric) > row.names(dat1)<- 1:nrow(dat1) > dat1 > # age race stat > #1 12 2 35 > #2 17 6 55 > A.K. >
Well, your data does not match up with what arun used. You have space delimited variable names and no spaces between any of the numbers. If the number should be broken up like arun has comma separated, then it is even easier. I stored the following data in a file, temp.txt, X1 X2 X3 age race stat 12 2 35 17 6 55 and read it like this dat1<- read.table("c:/tmp/temp.txt", header=TRUE, skip=1) and got this > dat1 age race stat 1 12 2 35 2 17 6 55 > Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: farnoosh sheikhi <farnoosh...@yahoo.com> > To: "smartpink...@yahoo.com" <smartpink...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:45 PM > Subject: changing colnames > > > > Hi Arun, > > I have a data set as follow: > > X1 X2 X3 > age race stat > 12235 > 17655 > > The column names are currently X1 X2 X3, but I want to drop them and have > age, race and stat as column names, like below: > > age race stat > 12235 > 17655 > > Do you know how to do that? > Thanks a lot. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.