[R] Renaming variables

[Simon Zehnder]

You haven't said yet, what object your 'data file' is. If you mean a data.frame I would use colnames(dataName) <- c("Col1Name", "col2Name", ….)

Best
Simon

On Sep 20, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Preetam Pal <lordpreetam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I guess this is pretty basic.
> 
> I have 25 variables in the data file (name: score), i.e. X1,X2,.....,X25.
> 
> I dont want to use score$X1, score$X2 everytime I use these variables.
> 
> Is there a way I can rename all these variables as simply X1,X2,.....X25
> without writing 25 lines of code, one line for renaming each variable (eg:
>> X1=score.X1  >X2=score.X2  and so on) ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Preetam
> 
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