You haven't said yet, what object your 'data file' is. If you mean a data.frame I would use colnames(dataName) <- c("Col1Name", "col2Name", ….)
Best Simon On Sep 20, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Preetam Pal <lordpree...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I guess this is pretty basic. > > I have 25 variables in the data file (name: score), i.e. X1,X2,.....,X25. > > I dont want to use score$X1, score$X2 everytime I use these variables. > > Is there a way I can rename all these variables as simply X1,X2,.....X25 > without writing 25 lines of code, one line for renaming each variable (eg: >> X1=score.X1 >X2=score.X2 and so on) ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Preetam > > -- > Preetam Pal > (+91)-9432212774 > M-Stat 2nd Year, Room No. N-114 > Statistics Division, C.V.Raman > Hall > Indian Statistical Institute, B.H.O.S. > Kolkata. > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.