Setting Column Names

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Setting Column Names

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April 3, 2018 at 8:28 pm

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22999 More actions · Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand the explanation here. The page linked makes no mention of the names function as far as I can see but the names function does appear to be a possible way of assigning column names. I'm also not sure why you'd choose the names function rather than the colnames function which is specifically intended to set the column names.

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Stewart "Arturius" Campbell SSC Guru Points: 72625 More actions · Answer 2

Interesting.
will have to dig deeper .

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david.gugg SSCertifiable Points: 6096 More actions · Answer 3

It feels like there are too many different ways to do the same thing in R. This Stack Overflow question deals with this concept and the way Steve chose to do it is only the 9th highest answer.
Not sure if that is necessarily a bad thing, but does make it confusing when looking in from the outside.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 4

There are multiple ways to do this. I've done it with colnames(), but decided to see how names() worked.