Hi Josh,

Here is a suggestion:

colnames(x)[1] <- 'mynewname'
colnames(x)
#  [1] "mynewname" "apples"    "bananas"   "cherries"

HTH,
Jorge


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Josh B <> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a very simple problem that I cannot seem to find the answer to.
> Consider the following toy dataset:
>
> x <- read.table(textConnection("V1 apples bananas cherries
> indv.1 7 8 4 3
> indv.2 7 7 4 9"), header = TRUE)
>
> How would I change the column name of ONLY the first column, not the
> others? Surely I should not have to re-specify the names of ALL the columns
> -- e.g., colnames(x) <- c("pears", "apples", "bananas", "cherries") -- if
> only the first column name will change.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Josh
>
>
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