On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > >> Can you be more explicit about your problem? > > > Michael, > > Data frame contains water chemistry data; site, date, parameter, value. > The column names after dcast() are, for example, alk_quant, ph_quant, > tds_quant. I wanted to remove the '_quant' from each column header. > > Using names() with a string vector of the new names did not work, so I > specified each one and names() made the changes. > > Rich
I'm afraid I'm still having trouble visualizing -- perhaps you could work up a reproducible example? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example Michael ______________________________________________ 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.
