RinAction - R Data Manipulation - rename variables

gistfile1.r

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##          Renaming variables                 ##
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# using the rename() function in the "reshape" package
install.packages("reshape")
library(reshape)

rename(leadership, c(manager = "managerID", date = "testDate"))

# using the names() function
names(leadership)
names(leadership)[2] <- "testDate"
names(leadership)[6:9] <- c("Var1","Var2","Var3","Var4")
names(leadership)[6:9] <- paste("Var",1:5,sep="")
names(leadership)

# using colnames() and rownames() functions
colnames(data) <- paste('prefix_',1:ncol(data),sep="")
rownames(data) <- data[,1]