Changing data frame column headings
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
Can you be more explicit about your problem?
Michael, Data frame contains water chemistry data; site, date, parameter, value. The column names after dcast() are, for example, alk_quant, ph_quant, tds_quant. I wanted to remove the '_quant' from each column header. Using names() with a string vector of the new names did not work, so I specified each one and names() made the changes. Rich
I'm afraid I'm still having trouble visualizing -- perhaps you could work up a reproducible example? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example Michael