[R] Column renaming
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Mon May 5 19:08:13 CEST 2008
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chip Barnaby <cbarnaby at wrightsoft.com> wrote:
> Yes, someone else pointed out my typo, sorry.
>
> My issue here is that referring to columns by index is risky. Hard-coded
> indices will be buried in code and there will be trouble if (when) the data
> organization changes. So I am trying to learn how to work with names, but
> the language does not seem to allow that approach without some awkwardness.
> I guess I could write some helper functions.
There's the rename function in the reshape package:
library(reshape)
X <- rename(X, c("bob" = "sue")
Hadley
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