If you have a lot of names to change, or you need to do it regularly, you can
use something like:
renames <- read.table(text=
"oldname newname
constant c
numbers b
", header=TRUE, as.is=TRUE )
names(seba)[match(renames$oldname, names(seba))] <- renames$newnames
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Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Try the following.
>
>
>names(seba)[grep("numbers", names(seba))] <- "b"
>names(seba)[grep("constant", names(seba))] <- "c"
>
>names(seba)
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Rui Barradas
>
>Em 18-01-2013 18:14, Sebastian Kruk escreveu:
>> I have a data. frame to which you want to change the names to some of
>their
>> columns.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>> seba <- data.frame ('constant' = 3, 'numbers' = 1: 10, 'letters' =
>LETTERS
>> [1:10], otros = 2:11)
>>
>> List their names:
>>
>>> names (Seba)
>> [1] "constant" "numbers" "letters"
>>
>> I want to rename c the column called constant and b the column
>> called numbers.
>>
>> I do not know in which order appear names.
>>
>> How could do it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Sebastian.
>>
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