Since you want to generate your own variable names instead of using a
list, do the operation in three steps:
x <- get(paste("arunoff_",table_year, sep=''))
colnames(x)[4] <- "COUNT"
assign(paste("arunoff_",table_year, sep=''), x)
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Steve Murray <smurray...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been trying to implement the advice given to me, but without much
> success so far. I thought I'd provide the code in full in the hope that it
> might make more sense. Just to reiterate, I'm attempting to change the header
> of the 4th column of every table to "COUNT".
>
>
> year<- 1951:2000
> filelist <- paste("C:\\Data\\arunoff_",year,".txt", sep="")
> filelist
>
>
> # Assign file names to individual objects
>
> table_year=1951
>
> for (i in filelist) {
> assign(paste("arunoff_",table_year,"_temp",
> sep=""),read.table(file=i, header=TRUE, sep=","))
> print(c("LOADED FILE: ","arunoff_",table_year,"_temp"), quote=FALSE)
> table_year = table_year+1
> }
>
>
> # RE-FORMAT DATA
>
> # Change names of particular column headings
> colnames(assign(paste("arunoff_",table_year, sep=""))[4],"COUNT")
>
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks as ever,
>
> Steve
>
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