> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of arun
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:56 AM
> To: farnoosh sheikhi
> Cc: R help
> Subject: Re: [R] changing colnames
>
> Hi,
> You could try:
> dat1<- read.table(text="
> X1,X2,X3
> age,race,stat
> 12,2,35
> 17,6,55
> ",sep=",",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> colnames(dat1)<- dat1[1,]
> dat1<- dat1[-1,]
> dat1[]<-lapply(dat1,as.numeric)
> row.names(dat1)<- 1:nrow(dat1)
> dat1
> # age race stat
> #1 12 2 35
> #2 17 6 55
> A.K.
>
Well, your data does not match up with what arun used. You have space
delimited variable names and no spaces between any of the numbers. If the
number should be broken up like arun has comma separated, then it is even
easier. I stored the following data in a file, temp.txt,
X1 X2 X3
age race stat
12 2 35
17 6 55
and read it like this
dat1<- read.table("c:/tmp/temp.txt", header=TRUE, skip=1)
and got this
> dat1
age race stat
1 12 2 35
2 17 6 55
>
Hope this is helpful,
Dan
Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA
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> ________________________________
> From: farnoosh sheikhi <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:45 PM
> Subject: changing colnames
>
>
>
> Hi Arun,
>
> I have a data set as follow:
>
> X1 X2 X3
> age race stat
> 12235
> 17655
>
> The column names are currently X1 X2 X3, but I want to drop them and have
> age, race and stat as column names, like below:
>
> age race stat
> 12235
> 17655
>
> Do you know how to do that?
> Thanks a lot.
>
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