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

[Mike Prager]

"Ben Fairbank" <BEN at SSANET.COM> wrote:

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

This is slightly simpler than what you had:

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

There are probably better ways still. 

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