[R] Elements of Sets as dataframe column names

Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 22:29:06 CET 2018


Hi Neha,
>From your message I think that you might get what you want with:

names(df)<-unlist(B)

However, the "sets" package might handle lists differently.

Jim

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Neha Aggarwal
<aggarwalneha2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a set B and a dataframe df. I want to name the columns of the
> dataframe after the elements of the set B.
> For example, for set B with elements {{"P1"}, {"P2"}, {"P3", "P4"}} I want
> to create a new dataframe with 3  columns named {"P1"} and {"P2"} and
> {"P3","P4"}.
>
> I tried colnames(df)<-(B). But it shows the elements as list, see below:
>> colnames(df)
> [1] "list(\"P1\")"         "list(\"P2\")"         "list(\"P3\", \"P4\")"
>
>
> Second part of my question is what is the bests command to extract the
> elements of a set?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Neha
>
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