[R] Looking for an easy way to change the names of a vector

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Use ifelse, and assign its values to names(Data)


ifelse(grepl(" ", names(Data)), gsub(" ", "-", names(Data)), 
paste0(names(Data), "-XXX"))


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 14-02-2013 11:43, Christofer Bogaso escreveu:
> Hello again,
>
> Let say I have following vector (this is basically a snap of very large vector):
>
>
> Data <- 1:8
> names(Data) <- c("ada", "fsdfs", "asd fd", "asdsa", "dsada", "asasad",
> "adas asdad", "aasaa")
> Data
>
> Now I want to change the names according to following rule:
>
> 1. If there is any space then replace that space by "-"
> 2. Otherwise add "-XXX" at the last to each name
>
> Therefore the names will be:
>
> c("ada-XXX", "fsdfs-XXX", "asd-fd", "asdsa-XXX", "dsada-XXX",
> "asasad-XXX", "adas-asdad", "aasaa-XXX")
>
>
> Can somebody point me some direct way for that?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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