[R] col.names ?

[Chuck Cleland]

On 6/6/2008 3:06 PM, tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com wrote:
> Dear R Users,
> 
>  A bit of an elementary question, but somehow, I haven't been able to 
> figure it out. I'd like to changes the column names of a data frame, so I 
> am looking for something like col.names (as in row.names). Could someone 
> please show me how to change the column names of a data frame ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tolga

my.iris <- iris

names(my.iris)
[1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width"  "Petal.Length" "Petal.Width" 
"Species"

names(my.iris) <- c("Length.Sepal", "Width.Sepal", "Length.Petal", 
"Width.Petal", "Species")

names(my.iris)
[1] "Length.Sepal" "Width.Sepal"  "Length.Petal" "Width.Petal"  "Species"

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