On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:41 AM, mister_bluesman<mister_blues...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am writing a script that will address columns using syntax like: > > data_set[,1] > > to extract the data from the first column of my data set, for example. This > code will be placed in a loop (where the column reference will be placed by > a variable). > > What I also need to do is extract the column NAME for a given column being > processed in the loop. The dataframe has been set so that R knows that the > top line refers to column headers. > > Can anyone help me understand how to do this? > > Thanks.
Possibly something like names(data_set)[i] ? HTH, Mark ______________________________________________ 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.
