[R] Renaming variables

[John Kane]

Depending on what your doing perhaps with()  could help?
Or assuming a data.frame or matrix, score[ , 25] will give you Score$X25

If you would supply a bit more information (and code) about what you are doing we probably can help more.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lordpreetam at gmail.com
> Sent: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:40:23 +0530
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> Subject: [R] Renaming variables
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I guess this is pretty basic.
> 
> I have 25 variables in the data file (name: score), i.e. X1,X2,.....,X25.
> 
> I dont want to use score$X1, score$X2 everytime I use these variables.
> 
> Is there a way I can rename all these variables as simply X1,X2,.....X25
>  without writing 25 lines of code, one line for renaming each variable
> (eg:
>  > X1=score.X1  >X2=score.X2  and so on) ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Preetam
> 
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