Re: [R] Data Frame Column Name Attribute

2016-04-23 Thread William Dunlap via R-help
You could use transform() instead of [[<- to add columns to your data.frame so the new columns get transformed they way they do when given to the data.frame function itself. E.g., > dd <- data.frame(X=1:5, Y=11:15) > str(transform(dd, Z=matrix(X+Y,ncol=1,dimnames=list(NULL, "NewZ" 'data.frame

Re: [R] Data Frame Column Name Attribute

2016-04-23 Thread David Winsemius
> On Apr 23, 2016, at 8:59 AM, thomas mann wrote: > > I am attempting to add a calculated column to a data frame. Basically, > adding a column called "newcol2" which are the stock closing prices from 1 > day to the next. > > The one little hang up is the name of the column. There seems to be

[R] Data Frame Column Name Attribute

2016-04-23 Thread thomas mann
I am attempting to add a calculated column to a data frame. Basically, adding a column called "newcol2" which are the stock closing prices from 1 day to the next. The one little hang up is the name of the column. There seems to be an additional data column name included in the attributes (dimnam