Many options here, but if you literally just want the first (up to) 8 characters:
names(mydf) <- substr(names(mydf), 1, 8) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:49 AM, gianni lavaredo <gianni.lavar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Researchers, > > I have a data frame with several column with the name letters more of 8 > characters. I wish to convert in a shape-file but there is a problem because > the names of the columns are more the 8 letters limit. Is there a function > to trunk the names is a data.frame? > > this is a easy example > > mydf <- > data.frame(mydatainfield=c(1,2,3,4,5),mydatainlab=c(1,2,3,4,5),intensity=c(1,2,3,4,5)) > > thanks in advance > Gianni > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Michael Sumner Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
