Column renaming
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