Try something like this: Suppose your data object is called df:
cbind(paste("sd", 1:NROW(df), sep = ""), df) If you are just moving from SAS check out the website (and books associated with) http://r4stats.com -- it's got some tutorials on moving from other platforms to R. Michael On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:48 PM, hyunjeehale <hyunjee.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am needing to create a new identifier variable for a data set which has no > ID variable in the original file. I am basically wanting to take the count > of each row and add "sd" in front of it - so it would look like so > > sd1 > sd2 > sd3 > sd4 > sd5 etc....... > > I have no idea how to do this. I am a SAS user trying to learn R. This > question may have been answered previously, but I could be searching for it > incorrectly. Thank you for any assistance you can provide. > > HyunJee > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Create-an-identifier-variable-tp4120548p4120548.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. > ______________________________________________ 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.