[R] Swap variables in data.frame

Blubbele birgit.lemcke at systbot.uzh.ch
Mon Jun 2 12:59:44 CEST 2008


Thanks but it swaps in both cases only the data:

FemMal_88[c(61,62)]=FemMal_88[c(62,61)]


FemMal_88[,c(61,62)]=FemMal_88[,c(62,61)]

Greets

B.


Karl Ove Hufthammer-4 wrote:
> 
> Birgit Lemcke:
> 
>> I have a dataframe and two of my variables are in the wrong position
>> and I would like to swap those variables.
> 
> To swap column 1 and 2, try
> 
>   d[c(1,2)]=d[c(2,1)]
> 
> Note that this is different from
> 
>   d[,c(1,2)]=d[,c(2,1)]
> 
> which will swap the data, but not the column names.
> 
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