[R] Extracting a column name in loop?

[mister_bluesman]

Thank you both for that. Much appreciated.


mister_bluesman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a script that will address columns using syntax like: 
> 
> data_set[,1] 
> 
> to extract the data from the first column of my data set, for example.
> This code will be placed in a loop (where the column reference will be
> placed by a variable). 
> 
> What I also need to do is extract the column NAME for a given column being
> processed in the loop. The dataframe has been set so that R knows that the
> top line refers to column headers. 
> 
> Can anyone help me understand how to do this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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