Of course: colnames(dats)[4] <- "new name"
M On Aug 29, 2012, at 9:34 AM, "Alok K Bohara, PhD" <boh...@unm.edu> wrote: > Hi > > I found an example in R to create a lagged panel data set which works fine. > The only problem is that it adds the lagged variable as follows > > wage2.dat > > year person wage lag(wage, -1) > 1.1 1980 1 -0.75843997 NA > 1.2 1981 1 0.27233048 -0.75843997 > 1.3 1982 1 -1.58335767 0.27233048 > 1.4 1983 1 0.36805926 -1.58335767 > 1.5 1984 1 -0.52312153 0.36805926 > 2.6 1980 2 -0.53559110 NA > 2.7 1981 2 -0.94935350 -0.53559110 > 2.8 1982 2 0.10486688 -0.94935350 > 2.9 1983 2 -0.50266443 0.10486688 > 2.10 1984 2 0.14644024 -0.50266443 > . > . > > Is there anyway I could rename the last column wag.lag1? Thanks. > > > Best, > Alok > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
