Questions tagged [r-colnames]
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Changing column name in R
I want to change column name (from T2 [?C] to T2 [°C]) of data stored in .csv. I am using following code in R
setwd("D:/Test")
fs::dir_tree()
dirlist <- list.files(full.names = FALSE, no.. = TRUE)
dirlist
read_the_files <- function(filelist){
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Alexia k Boston
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Correctly order/sort columns based on string in colnames tidyverse style in R
This is just a slice of a large dataframe that I have
dput(MyData)
structure(list(Frui1_Trea4_Ty4_0d = c(10L, 4L, 28L, 147L, 6L),
Frui1_Trea4_Ty4_14d = c(18L, 0L, 26L, 70L, 27L), Frui1_Trea4_Ty8_0d = c(9L,
1L, 21L, 168L, 6L),…

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R gt package - How to rename all columns at once
I have a dataframe like this one:
library(gt)
library(tidyverse)
library(gtExtras)
test = dplyr::tibble(
id = 1:3,
type1_value1 = 2:4,
type1_value2 = 3:5,
type2_value1 = 4:6,
type2_value2 = 5:7)
I actually want to have only spanners but…

Essi
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How to calculate mean of only few columns of a text file in R?
I am using following code in R to calculate mean of all columns in various text files. Now, I need to modify the existing code to calculate mean of only few columns e.g. Temp [C], Press [Pa], Pow [W] etc. (All the columns in the txt file are in…

Alexia k Boston
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How to include conditional statements while reading the data in R?
Using the code mentioned below in R, I am reading the data (.txt files) saved in different folders. There are following conditions that I need to include in my code.
The structure of my txt files is as follows:
Date/Time XY [XY] C1 [m2] C1c C2 [m]…

Alexia k Boston
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How to resolve error 'Class attribute on column 1 of different items do not match' in R
I have various .txt files stored in multiple folders. The txt files have various columns, one of which is Temperature. Few files have temperature column name as T2 [°C] while others have it as T2 [?C]. I want to keep the temperature column name as…

Alexia k Boston
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How can I change the name of a particular column in various files in R?
I have various .txt files stored in multiple folders. The txt files have various columns, one of which is Temperature. Few initial txt files temperature column name as T2 [°C] while others have it as T2 [?C]. I want to keep the temperature column…

Alexia k Boston
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How to make conditional statement based on column titles in R
I am exporting a dataframe to R
I want to set a condition so that if the column header matches any of the following name below
Data_design <- c( "age", "sex", "font")
Then an error is flagged in the condition if statement.
For instance, if I import…

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Subset of Columns based on the same column names
I have 2 data frames. In my dataset, a part of column name with leading zeros or trailing zeros should be ignored when matching columns, such as 009 = 9 or 22.0 == 22. And I want to subset the intersection of column names of two data frames.
As an…

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Remove middle inconsistent characters from a column header column name with r
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set.seed(500)
index <- sample(1:nrow(Bands_reflectance_2017),100, replace = FALSE )
Bands_reflectance_2017 <- dput(head(Bands_reflectance_2017[1:100]))
Bands_reflectance_2017 <-
structure(
list(
t2017.01.05T08.25.12.000000000_blue =…

Nangula
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Assigning column name as title within for loop
I am attempting to make a plots for each column of my dataframe and pass on the column name to be the title for each plot. There are a total of 72 columns that need their own individual plot. Facet_wrap is not an appropriate solution to this…

Ethan
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Replace multiple strings in column names of r
I am trying to do a string replacement for column names based on a different patterns. I want to replace one pattern with a new string and another pattern with another string, but for a number of different string patterns.
As an example:
I have a…

Ross
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Trying to iterate through certain columns based on column name using R but columns not in list get eliminated
I have a dataframe with 50 columns. I am trying to iterate through the columns in a dataframe that contain the word "apple". The dataframe contains 24 "apple" columns.
If apple_1 = 1 then all the other apple_x columns in the row should equal to 1…
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Print columnnames as vector
My code prints a tibble as binary matrix. It prints a binary matrix if a specific stringpart is matched (with grepl).
This is my output.
A tibble: 11 × 6
Aufzeichnungen …

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R - refer to column names rather than column index when using lapply with data frame
I am using lapply to take values from specific columns of a data frame and change them from a 1-5 scale to the inverse (i.e., 1 becomes 5, 2 becomes 4). I have managed to do this by referring to the column index:
df_vars[,c(104:183, 222:249,…

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