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.

Re: [R] changing colnames

-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

Re: [R] changing colnames

Thanks for the code. It was so simple and worked perfectly. I really appreciate it.   Best,Farnoosh Sheikhi Cc: R help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:56 AM Subject: Re: changing colnames Hi, You could try: dat1- read.table(text=

Re: [R] changing colnames in dataframes

thank you all, Jagat, Bert and Prof. Ripley for your kind help. The PROBLEM was: give descripitve names to the columns in JJ-data.frame( c( as.character(rep( gender,3))) , c( F76,6- F83, F90) ) Possible SOLUTIONs are: 1.JJ - data.frame( gender=c( as.character(rep( gender,3))) ,

[R] changing colnames in dataframes

dear all, I'm building new dataframes from bigger one's using e.g. columns F76, F83, F90: JJ-data.frame( c( as.character(rep( gender,3))) , c( F76,6- F83, F90) ) Looking into JJ one has: c.as.character.rep.gender..8... c.6...F73..F78..F79..F82..6...F84..F94..F106..F109 1

Re: [R] changing colnames in dataframes

See the help page. You name the arguments, e.g. JJ - data.frame( gender= c( as.character(rep( gender,3))) , J.value -c( F76 ,6-F83, F90) ) The help says Arguments: ...: these arguments are of either the form 'value' or 'tag = value'. Component names are