Thank you very much, Sarah! It worked great in my dataset!
Andre On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the useful reproducible example. > > Here's one of the various ways this can be done: > > > lapply(seq_along(mylist), function(i)setNames(mylist[[i]], c("CaZyme", > names(mylist)[i]))) > [[1]] > CaZyme A > 1 1 3 > 2 2 3 > > [[2]] > CaZyme B > 1 1 3 > 2 2 3 > > [[3]] > CaZyme C > 1 1 4 > 2 2 5 > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:02 PM, André Luis Neves <andrl...@ualberta.ca> > wrote: > > Dear, > > > > I have the following list (mylist), in which I need to pass to the > column 2 > > the name of the list itself. > > So, running the follwing commands: > > > > A= data.frame(1:2,3) > > B= data.frame(1:4,3) > > C= data.frame(c(1:2),c(4:5)) > > mylist=list(A=A,B=A,C=C) > > lapply(mylist, setNames, paste(c("CaZyme"))) > > > > The output would be: > >> lapply(mylist, setNames, paste(c("CaZyme"))) > > $A > > CaZyme NA > > 1 1 3 > > 2 2 3 > > > > $B > > CaZyme NA > > 1 1 3 > > 2 2 3 > > > > $C > > CaZyme NA > > 1 1 4 > > 2 2 5 > > 3 3 6 > > > > My question is: > > How could I name the second column with the name of each dataframe of the > > list, such that NA would be substitute for A, B and C, respectively. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Andre > > > > > -- Andre [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.