Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
>Also, I checked my options and I have my email set to plain text... The warning inserted by the mailing list at the bottom of your message below > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] indicates that you may still need to understand your mail client better. On October 6, 2021 10:30:49 AM

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-06 Thread Anne Zach
Hello, Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it, I was able to solve the problem! Here is a part of my dataframe (just in case...): > dput( head( behavioral_df) ) structure(list(ID = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), DOB = c("9/53/1959", "4/8/1953", "2/21/1961", "10/11/1948", "9/4/1962", "8/22/1953"

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Anne, As mentioned above, you may have to do nothing. Here is an example that might clarify that: azdat<-read.table(text="subject 1 2 3 1 10 20 30 2 11 22 33", header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) azdat subject X1 X2 X3 1 1 10 20 30 2 2 11 22 33 As you can see, R simply prepends an

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Bert Gunter
... and to add to what Eric and Duncan have said, what you have as column names depends on how the data were imported. e.g.: > d1 <-data.frame(a = 1:3, `1b` = letters[1:3]) ## check.names has a default of TRUE > names(d1) [1] "a" "X1b" ## note the conversion to a syntactically valid name. See

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/10/2021 2:02 p.m., Anne Zach wrote: Dear R users, I have a dataframe that contains several variables, among which 105 correspond to scores on certain trials. Unfortunately, when I imported this dataframe into R, I realised that the variable names corresponding to each trial begin with digi

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Eric Berger
Hi Anne, It would be helpful to include at least part of behavioral_df for people to understand the issue better. Please do the following in R and post the output. dput( head( behavioral_df) ) Also, set your email to plain text as HTML is stripped from emails on this list. Best, Eric On Tue,

Re: [R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Andrew Simmons
Hello, I think you have to use 'matches' instead of 'starts_with', I believe starts_with does not accept a regular expression whereas matches does. On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:15 PM Anne Zach wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have a dataframe that contains several variables, among which 105 > corresp

[R] Rename variables starting with digits

2021-10-05 Thread Anne Zach
Dear R users, I have a dataframe that contains several variables, among which 105 correspond to scores on certain trials. Unfortunately, when I imported this dataframe into R, I realised that the variable names corresponding to each trial begin with digits, which violates R naming conventions. I