[R] Having a problem with labels

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi Jeff,

If you read the help for labels(), it says that for a dataframe it
returns the dimnames: the first component is the row names, which by
default are numbers, and the second component of the list is the
column names.

Since you appear to want just the latter, you could use

colnames(df)

instead. (But be careful: df is also the name of a function, and it's
easy to confuse things.)

Sarah


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Johnson <mrjefftoyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem with my labels.
>
> I am reading in a data file:
> df <- read.csv(file = 'batch1extract_100k_sample.csv')
>
> However, it's producing two sets of labels:
>
>> labels(df)
> [[1]]
>  [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10" "11" "12" "13" "14"
> "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21"
> [22] "22" "23" "24" "25" "26" "27" "28" "29" "30" "31" "32" "33" "34" "35"
> "36" "37" "38" "39" "40" "41" "42"
> [43] "43" "44" "45" "46" "47" "48" "49" "50" "51" "52" "53" "54" "55" "56"
> "57" "58" "59" "60" "61" "62" "63"
> [64] "64" "65" "66" "67" "68" "69" "70" "71" "72" "73" "74" "75" "76" "77"
> "78" "79" "80" "81" "82" "83" "84"
> [85] "85" "86" "87" "88" "89" "90" "91" "92" "93" "94" "95" "96" "97" "98"
> "99"
>
> [[2]]
>  [1] "PERSONPROFILE_POS"         "PARTY_ID"
>  "PERSON_FIRST_NAME"
>  [4] "PERSON_LAST_NAME"          "PERSON_MIDDLE_NAME"        "PARTY_NUMBER"
>
>  [7] "ACCOUNT_NUMBER"            "ABILITEC_LINK"             "ADDRESS1"
>
> [10] "ADDRESS2"                  "ADDRESS3"                  "ADDRESS4"
>
> [13] "CITY"                      "COUNTY"                    "STATE"
>
> [16] "PROVINCE"                  "POSTAL_CODE"               "COUNTRY"
>
> [19] "PRIMARY_PER_TYPE"          "SELLTOADDR_LOS"            "LOCATION_ID"
>
> [22] "SELLTOADDR_SOS"            "PARTY_SITE_ID"
> "PRIMARYPHONE_CPOS"
> [25] "CONTACT_POINT_ID_PCP"      "CONTACT_POINT_PURPOSE_PCP"
> "PHONE_LINE_TYPE"
> [28] "PRIMARY_FLAG_PCP"          "PHONE_COUNTRY_CODE"
>  "PHONE_AREA_CODE"
> [31] "PHONE_NUMBER"              "EMAIL_CPOS"
>  "CONTACT_POINT_ID_ECP"
> [34] "CONTACT_POINT_PURPOSE_ECP" "PRIMARY_FLAG_ECP"
>  "EMAIL_ADDRESS"
> [37] "BB_PARTY_ID"
>
>
> Notice I get 2 rows for the labels: the first row is a list of numbers
> (which does not appear in my dataset) and the second row which are my
> actual labels.
>
> I have no idea why it's returning all of the numbers in the labels command.
> They're definitely not there in the input file. Any suggestions?
> Thank you!
>

-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org