[R] Swap variables in data.frame

[Birgitle]

Thanks might be easier in my case because I have so many variables.
Could have found this solution on my own.

Birgit


Rogers, James A [PGRD Groton] wrote:
> 
> 
> Birgit Lemcke wrote:
> 
>> I have a dataframe and two of my variables are in the wrong position 
>> and I would like to swap those variables. 
> 
> In addition to the other solutions posted, if you prefer to reference
> the columns by name rather than by index, you could use subset() 
> 
> dat <- data.frame(a = letters[1:3], b = LETTERS[1:3], c = 1:3, d = 3:1)
> 
> subset(dat, select = c(b, a, c, d))
> ## or equivalently, something like:
> subset(dat, select = c(b:a, c:d))
> 
> 
> --Jim 
> 
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