After importing multiple files to data.frames in R, I want to rename all their columns and do other operations with them. The data.frame names are not continuous like 1, 3, 4, 6. I could not find a way of creating a list of the data.frames and loop this and ended up putting them into a list first:
# get all objects all.obj = sapply(ls(), get) # get data frames dfrs = all.obj[sapply(all.obj, is.data.frame)] but then I get lists within lists: structure(list(`1` = structure(list(Datum = structure(c(... my problem now is how to access the inner list, for example to rename the "Datum" to "date". The following changes only the outer list: names(dfrs) <- c("date", "time", "temp","") with the result: structure(list(date = structure(list(Datum = structure(c(... Or isn“t there a way to avoid the list and just loop through the data.frames of your workspace regardless of number and naming of the data.frames and thus apply different operations on them like the renaming of the columns? Many thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/accessing-names-of-lists-in-a-list-tp3649750p3649750.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.