Hi Joel, to replace the colnames:
colnames(dataframe <- )gsub("X","",colnames(dataframe)) to order by colnames: dataframe <- dataframe[,colnames(dataframe)] Alfredo 2012/2/17 Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg <jo...@life.ku.dk> > Dear all, > > I have a data frame in which the columns need to be ordered. The first > column X is at the right position, but the remaining columns X1-Xn should > be ordered like this: X1, X2, X3 etc instead of like below. > > > colnames(pos1) > [1] "X" "X1" "X10" "X11" "X12" "X13" "X14" "X15" "X16" "X17" "X18" > "X19" "X2" "X20" "X3" "X4" "X5" "X6" "X7" "X8" "X9" > > > pos1[1:5,1:5] > X X1 X10 X11 X12 > 1 100.5 7949.469 18509.064 8484.969 17401.056 > 2 101.5 3080.058 7794.691 3211.323 8211.058 > 3 102.5 1854.347 4347.571 1783.846 4827.338 > 4 103.5 2064.441 8421.746 2012.536 8363.785 > 5 104.5 9650.402 26637.926 10730.647 27053.421 > > I am trying to first change the first column name to something without an > X and save as a vector. I would then remove the X from each position use > the vector for renaming the columns. Then the column 2-n could be ordered, > I hope... > > colnames(pos)[1] <- "Mass" > columnNames <- colnames(pos) > > Does any of you have an idea how to do this, or perhaps there is a > smoother solution? > Would it be easier to solve it if the contents of the first column were > extracted and used as row names instead? > > Best regards, > > Joel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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