Re: [R] data frame column name change

2011-01-17 Thread Pete Brecknock
or d = data.frame(Col1=c(1,2,3),Col2=c(2,3,4),Col3=c(3,4,5)) names(d) names(d)[1] = "NewName1" names(d) HTH Pete -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/data-frame-column-name-change-tp3220684p3221214.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] data frame column name change

2011-01-16 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi eric, Try colnames(x) colnames(x)[1] <- 'newname' colnames(x) HTH, Jorge On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:28 PM, eric <> wrote: > > How do I change the name of one column in a data frame ? Suppose I have a > data frame x with 5 columns. If the names were date, col1, col2, col3, col4 > and I want

[R] data frame column name change

2011-01-16 Thread eric
How do I change the name of one column in a data frame ? Suppose I have a data frame x with 5 columns. If the names were date, col1, col2, col3, col4 and I wanted to simply change the name of date, what would the command be ? I tried the following and it didn't seem to work : names(x[1]) <- "newn