Dear Daniel and Jorge, Thank you very much and it does help.
If I have a string "ABCD", how can I access the second element of the string "B"? Thanks, Miao 2012/7/27 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@frontier.com> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > > On Behalf Of jpm miao > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:12 PM > > To: r-help > > Subject: [R] How can I access the title of a table read via read.csv? > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a table which I can read via read.csv: > > > > fx1<-read.csv(file="A_FX_M.csv", header=TRUE) > > > > TIME REER NTD JPY GBP HKD > > 1 198001 124.26 36.030 237.96 2.263980 4.8366 > > 2 198002 126.59 36.030 244.05 2.290426 4.8765 > > 3 198003 128.33 36.026 248.62 2.206045 4.9960 > > 4 198004 127.85 36.063 251.67 2.215330 4.9760 > > 5 198005 124.40 36.050 228.35 2.302026 4.8891 > > 6 198006 124.64 36.028 218.05 2.336995 4.9017 > > 7 198007 125.17 36.007 220.95 2.371917 4.9046 > > 8 198008 128.87 35.966 224.45 2.369107 4.9360 > > > > ....................... > > > > > > How can I access the title of the table? For example, I would like > > to access the character string "REER"; how can I do it? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Miao > > > > Look at ?colnames. > > colnames(fx1)[2] > > > > Hope this is helpful, > > Dan > > Daniel Nordlund > Bothell, WA USA > > ______________________________________________ > 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]] ______________________________________________ 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.