Hello Duncan

Thank you so much it worked. I think I was doing it in a more complicated
way so I didnt get a solution

Thank you very much once again

Regards
Sunita

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> On 24/05/2009 12:21 PM, Sunita22 wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have 2 datasets say Data1 and Data2 both are of different dimesions.
>> Data1:
>> 120 rows and 6 columns (Varname, Vartype, Labels, Description, ....)
>> The column Varname has 120 rows which has variable names such id, age,
>> gender,.....so on
>>
>> Data2:
>> 12528 rows and 120 columns
>> The column names in this case are V1, V2, ......... V120 (which are
>> default
>> names in R when we say head=F in read.csv)
>>
>> I want to assign the variable names from Data1 to Data2 as the column
>> headings in Data2 i.e V1 should be id, V2 should be age, ...... so on
>>
>> Is it possible to do in R?
>> I tired assigning variable names from Data1 in one object and transposing
>> them and then used rbind but it doesnot work.
>>
>> Can I use colnames? I could not apply it in this case. Can any1 tell me
>> how
>> can i apply it for this case?
>>
>
> names or colnames should work:
>
> colnames(Data2) <- Data1$Varname
>
> or
>
> names(Data2) <- Data1$Varname
>
>
>> or should I paste the column names in csv file (from where I have imported
>> the data) and then import in R?
>>
>
> That's another way that would work.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Regards
>> Sunita
>>
>>
>>
>


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