[R] change column name in a function

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 26-Jun-2002 at 05:47PM +0200, Ott Toomet wrote:

|> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
|> 
|>   |Hi,
|>   |
|>   |I have the following function:
|>   |
|>   |TEST <- cbind(Pox0t30.stone.1990.2000, 
|>   |sqrt(apply(Pox0t30.stone.1990.2000[,2:11], 1, var)))
|>   |
|>   |In rhe resulting Object TEST the added column is titled:
|>   |sqrt(apply(Pox0t30.stone.1990.2000[,2:11], 1, var)
|>   |
|>   |I would like to change it to a sensible variable name like PoxMean. How 
|>   |can I incorporate this into the above function?
|> 
|> What do you mean with ,,function'' in the above?  But you may easily change
|> the names of the components of test.  Use the fact, that the variable names
|> in a data.frame (and in a matrix too) are store as the second component in
|> the list dimnames(TEST).  So you could try e.g.
|> 
|> dimnames(TEST)[[2]][length(dimnames(TEST)[[2]]) <- "PoxMean"

Or even simpler (if it is a dataframe),

names(TEST)[length(names(TEST))] <- "PoxMean"

best

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