Better way to change the name of a column in a dataframe?

Hello R users --



If I have a dataframe such as the following, named "frame" with the
columns intended to be named col1 through col6,

 frame

     col1 col2 cmlo3 col4 col5 col6

[1,]    3   10     2    6    5    7

[2,]    6    8     4   10    7    1

[3,]    7    5     1    3    1    8

[4,]   10    6     5    4    9    2



and I want to correct or otherwise change the name of one of the
columns, I can do so with

 dimnames(frame)[[2]][which(dimnames(frame)[[2]]=="cmlo3")] <- "col3"

which renames the offending column:

 frame

     col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6

[1,]    3   10    2    6    5    7

[2,]    6    8    4   10    7    1

[3,]    7    5    1    3    1    8

[4,]   10    6    5    4    9    2



This seems cumbersome and not very intuitive.  How can one accomplish
this more simply?



With thanks for any suggestions,



Ben Fairbank


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