[R] Strange Colnames

[Miguel A. Arranz]

You probably want to have a look at help(embed). It might be all you need.


On Friday 25 February 2005 12:49, Georg Hoermann wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I am trying to create a matrix of lagged time series with the
> following code fragment (I know that I can use acf-function...).
> I want to set the variable/column name to something like
> "lag 1" etc. If I try to do it I get text like
> "lagtest.lagtest.lagtest.lag 1" where does this come from?
>
> After a conversion to a data.frame it works as expected.
> What did I miss?
>
> Thanks and greetings,
>
> Georg
> ==================
>
>  > lagtest <- as.ts(seq(1:100)) ;
>  > for (i in 1:4) {lagtest <- cbind(lagtest,lag(ts_test,i));
>
> colnames(lagtest)[i+1]<- paste("lag",i)}
>
>  > colnames(lagtest)[1]<-"H_GW";
>  > colnames(lagtest)
>
> [1] "H_GW"                          "lagtest.lagtest.lagtest.lag 1"
> "lagtest.lagtest.lag 2"
> [4] "lagtest.lag 3"                 "lag 4"
>
>
> # this works...
>
>  >  t5 <- as.data.frame(lagtest)
>  > for (i in 1:4) {names(t5)[i+1] <- paste("var",i) }
>  > names(t5)
>
> [1] "H_GW"  "var 1" "var 2" "var 3" "var 4"
>
>
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