[R] Better way to change the name of a column in a dataframe?

[Andrew Robinson]

Hi,

names(frame)[names(frame) == "cmlo3"] <- "col3"

should also work

Cheers

Andrew

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0500, Mike Prager wrote:
> "Ben Fairbank" <BEN at SSANET.COM> wrote:
> 
> > [...] I want to correct or otherwise change the name of one of the
> > columns, I can do so with 
> > 
> > > dimnames(frame)[[2]][which(dimnames(frame)[[2]]=="cmlo3")] <- "col3"
> > 
> > This seems cumbersome and not very intuitive.  How can one accomplish
> > this more simply?
> 
> This is slightly simpler than what you had:
> 
>       names(frame)[which(names(frame) == "cmlo3")] <- "col3"
> 
> There are probably better ways still. 
> 
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