You have to return a value from the function in the lapply and assign the
result to another object:
> df <- data.frame(a=1,b=2,c=3,d=4)
> a <- list(df,df,df,df)
> # to change the name of the second, you have to change the name and then
return
> # the dataframe as the return value and assign it back into another list
> a.1 <- lapply(a, function(x){
+ names(x)[2] <- 'newName'
+ x # return
+ })
>
> a
[[1]]
a b c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[2]]
a b c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[3]]
a b c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[4]]
a b c d
1 1 2 3 4
> a.1
[[1]]
a newName c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[2]]
a newName c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[3]]
a newName c d
1 1 2 3 4
[[4]]
a newName c d
1 1 2 3 4
>
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM, James Fearon <jfea...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Say I have dataframes d1, d2, ... , dn, and I want to apply a function to
> all of them. For example, say I want to change the name of the second
> variable in each dataframe to "x2". The following doesn't work:
>
> a = list(d1,d2,d3,d4)
> lapply(a,function(x) names(x)[2] = "x2")
>
> What would work?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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