Thanks but it swaps in both cases only the data: FemMal_88[c(61,62)]=FemMal_88[c(62,61)]
FemMal_88[,c(61,62)]=FemMal_88[,c(62,61)] Greets B. Karl Ove Hufthammer-4 wrote: > > Birgit Lemcke: > >> I have a dataframe and two of my variables are in the wrong position >> and I would like to swap those variables. > > To swap column 1 and 2, try > > d[c(1,2)]=d[c(2,1)] > > Note that this is different from > > d[,c(1,2)]=d[,c(2,1)] > > which will swap the data, but not the column names. > > -- > Karl Ove Hufthammer > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Swap-variables-in-data.frame-tp17597476p17598708.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.