[R] Column renaming

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There is a rename function in the reshape package and also one in the
memisc package.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chip Barnaby <cbarnaby at wrightsoft.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Is there a less cumbersome way to rename a column by name (as opposed to
> index) than --
>
> names( X)[ names[ X] == "bob"]<-"sue"
>
> ?
>
> A semi-related question: how does one get the index of a column by name,
> something along the lines of col.index( X, "sue") ?
>
>
> Chip Barnaby
>
>
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