[R] Column names of a data frame

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Thu Aug 26 11:57:22 CEST 2004


Michael,

See ?colnames.

Sean

On Aug 26, 2004, at 5:31 AM, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:

> I'm coming out with all the classic problems today ;-)
>
> Can anyone tell me how to change the column names of an already 
> existing
> data frame?  I've read the docs for ?data.frame and ?as.data.frame but
> can't figure it out.
>
> I want to make a new data.frame from some of the columns of an existing
> data.frame, but when I do that, the new data.frame columns have the 
> same
> names as the old data.frame's columns, and I want them to be
> different....
>
> Sorry for the lame question....
>
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