[R] Table collumn to single var in lowcase

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Fri Jun 2 16:59:51 CEST 2006


names(DataTABLE) <- tolower(names(DataTABLE))

?casefold
?names

Milton Cezar wrote:
> Dear All,
>    
>   I have read a table using
>       DataTABLE <- read.table("mytable.txt, header=T) 
>    
>   And get the following data structure
>        Var1  VAR2   VaR3  Var4 ...
>    
>   How can I list all collumn names (in lowcase) and create variables from table collumns. By hand I do 
>       var1 <- DataTABLE$Var1
>       var2 <- DataTABLE$VAR2
>       var3 <- DataTABLE$VaR3
>       var4 <- DataTABLE$Var4
>    
>   Unfortunatelly these data come as an output from other program and the data file have about 80 collumns.
>    
>   Thanks in advance!
>    
>   miltinho
> 
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