Re: [R] Change the name of one column ONLY

Hi Josh, Here is a suggestion: colnames(x)[1] <- 'mynewname' colnames(x) # [1] "mynewname" "apples""bananas" "cherries" HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Josh B <> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a very simple problem that I cannot seem to find the answer to. > Consider the follow

Re: [R] Change the name of one column ONLY

Try: names(x)[1] <- 'pears' On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Josh B wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a very simple problem that I cannot seem to find the answer to. > Consider the following toy dataset: > > x <- read.table(textConnection("V1 apples bananas cherries > indv.1 7 8 4 3 > indv.2 7 7 4 9")