I came up with this solution,
> cbind(dat, dat[, 1:3]^2)
X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X1
X2 X3
1 0.72776481 -1.1332612 -1.9857503 0.46189400 -0.09016379 0.529641625
1.28428102 3.9432044
2 0.05126592 0.2858707 0.9075806 1.27582713 -0.49438507 0.002628194
0.08172203 0.8237026
3 -0.40430146 0.5457195 -1.1924042 0.15025594 1.99710475 0.163459669
0.29780978 1.4218277
4 1.40746971 -1.2279416 0.3296075 0.84411774 -0.52371619 1.980970990
1.50784058 0.1086411
5 -0.53841150 0.4750082 -0.4705148 0.05591914 -0.31503500 0.289886944
0.22563275 0.2213842
6 0.90691210 0.7247171 0.8244184 0.73328097 -1.05284737 0.822489552
0.52521494 0.6796657
But, you would NOT ONLY get undesired variable names, BUT ALSO duplicated
names. I suppose I can use paste() to solve that?
Any better ideas?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:57 PM, C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R list,
>
> I am am a little unsure what is the best way to approach this. I suppose I
> have
>
> > dat <- matrix(rnorm(30), ncol = 5)
> > dat <- data.frame(dat)
> > dat
> X1 X2 X3 X4 X5
> 1 -1.13999917 -0.87868106 -0.33000492 1.5241765 -0.92483388
> 2 -0.56168006 -0.08837883 1.96237792 -0.5335615 0.02880586
> 3 0.82800071 -1.89965562 -0.05438815 -0.9162857 -0.57470053
> 4 -0.03218412 -0.23119263 -1.10671765 -0.2885518 -0.30953951
> 5 1.70525779 -0.93854817 -1.05932636 -0.2983139 -0.21980145
> 6 1.19047531 0.38301678 -0.20830015 -0.6668266 0.82578534
>
> Suppose I want to add columns X6, X7, X8, where
> X6 = X1^2
> X7 = X2^2
> X8 = X3^2
>
> I am thinking of using apply(), but df asks for column names, what's a
> quick way to generate names on the fly?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
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