?names data frames have names, rather column names (they are lists with extra structure).
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > I'm coming out with all the classic problems today ;-) > > Can anyone tell me how to change the column names of an already existing > data frame? I've read the docs for ?data.frame and ?as.data.frame but > can't figure it out. > > I want to make a new data.frame from some of the columns of an existing > data.frame, but when I do that, the new data.frame columns have the same > names as the old data.frame's columns, and I want them to be > different.... > > Sorry for the lame question.... -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
