renameCol {doBy}

Rename columns in a matrix or a dataframe.

Description

Rename columns in a matrix or a dataframe.

Usage

renameCol(indata, src, tgt)

Arguments

indata

A dataframe or a matrix

src

Source: Vector of names of columns in indata to be renamed. Can also be a vector of column numbers.

tgt

Target: Vector with corresponding new names in the output.

Value

A dataframe if indata is a dataframe; a matrix in indata is a matrix.

Author(s)

Søren Højsgaard, [e-mail]

Examples

renameCol(CO2, 1:2, c("kk", "ll"))
renameCol(CO2, c("Plant", "Type"), c("kk", "ll"))

# These fail - as they should:
# renameCol(CO2, c("Plant", "Type", "conc"), c("kk", "ll"))
# renameCol(CO2, c("Plant", "Type", "Plant"), c("kk", "ll"))