renameCol: Rename columns

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Rename columns

Description

Rename columns of a data.frame or matrix.

Usage

renameCol(x, old, new)

Arguments

x	A data.frame or matrix.
old	Character vector with names(s), or numeric vector of the indices of the column(s) you want to rename.
new	Character vector of new names.

Value

A data.frame or matrix.

Examples

x <- data.frame(old_x = 1:5, old_y = letters[1:5], old_z = LETTERS[1:5])
x
renameCol(x, c('old_y', 'old_z'), c('new_Y', 'new_Z'))
renameCol(x, c(2, 3), c('new_Y', 'new_Z')) # same as above

# Long way:
new <- c('new_Y', 'new_Z')
colnames(x)[match(c('old_y', 'old_z'), colnames(x))] <- new

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