[R] create new column with colnames resulting from paste()
Dong-hyun Oh
r.arecibo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 18:23:40 CEST 2008
Dear UseRs,
I would like to know the way to create a new column by naming it
simultaneously.
For example, in for() loop I want to create columns named as
paste("test", i, sep = ""), as shown below.
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dt <- data.frame(a = c(1, 2, 3), b = c(3, 2, 2), c = c(1, 3, 5))
for(i in 1:2){
dt$as.name(paste("test", i, sep = "")) <- rep(i, 3)
}
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Error message of above command is as follows:
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Error in dt$as.name(paste("test", i, sep = "")) <- rep(i, 3) :
target of assignment expands to non-language object
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The structure of data.frame I want is as follows:
> dt
a b c test1 test2
1 3 2 1 2
2 2 3 1 2
3 2 5 1 2
Any help?
Thank you in advance.
Best,
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Dong-hyun Oh
Center of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies
Royal Institute or Technology, Sweden
e-mail: oh.dongh at gmail.com
cel: +46 73 563 45 22
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