Dear all,

Is there a less cumbersome way to rename a column by name (as opposed to index) than --

names( X)[ names[ X] == "bob"]<-"sue"

?

A semi-related question: how does one get the index of a column by name, something along the lines of col.index( X, "sue") ?


Chip Barnaby


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