Re: [R] Change data frame column names

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Liptrot
Thanks all, I used Gavins approach - unlisting the titles and the replacing names, as my titles were stored as factors in the data frame as that was the way they were imported... Tom > Subject: Re: [R] Change data frame column names > From: gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk > To

Re: [R] Change data frame column names

2009-07-15 Thread Don MacQueen
Try names(df) <- as.vector(unlist(coltitles)) This will fail if you have more than one row in your data frame coltitles. Which is why Duncan Murdoch's second email has a better solution. Given the difficulty in getting the titles out of the data frame in vector form, I would wonder why you're

Re: [R] Change data frame column names

2009-07-15 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:35 +, Tom Liptrot wrote: > > > > Hi R helpers, > > I have a data frame and I want to change the column names to names I have > held in another data frame, but I am having difficulty. All data framnes are > large so i can't input manually. Below is what i have trie

Re: [R] Change data frame column names

2009-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/15/2009 10:35 AM, Tom Liptrot wrote: Hi R helpers, I have a data frame and I want to change the column names to names I have held in another data frame, but I am having difficulty. All data framnes are large so i can't input manually. Below is what i have tried so far: df<-data.frame(

Re: [R] Change data frame column names

2009-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/15/2009 10:35 AM, Tom Liptrot wrote: Hi R helpers, I have a data frame and I want to change the column names to names I have held in another data frame, but I am having difficulty. All data framnes are large so i can't input manually. Below is what i have tried so far: df<-data.frame(