[R] Apply vector of labels to columns of data frame

[Steve Powell]

Thanks Shubha, Petr and Patrick - 
Erm, yes perhaps I wasn't clear, when I said "label" I didn't mean names, I
meant the labels provided by Hmisc. 
So for example
v=c("lab1","lab2","lab3")
a<-b<-c<-1:3
df=data.frame(cbind(a,b,c))

I can do 
label(df$a)="lab1"
label(df$b)="lab2" etc
Or 
attributes(df$a)$label="lab1" etc
But I would like to do this with a loop or an apply function.
Thanks and best wishes


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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Burns [mailto:pburns at pburns.seanet.com] 
Sent: 05 October 2007 11:50
To: Steve Powell
Subject: Re: [R] Apply vector of labels to columns of data frame

Your question is not very clear, but is this what you want:

colnames(v) <- paste('lab', 1:ncol(v), sep='')


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Steve Powell wrote:

>Dear list members
>I would like to apply a vector of labels
>v=c("lab1","lab2","lab3")
>to a dataframe
>df=data.frame(1:3,1:3,1:3)
>using some kind of loop or apply function.
>Any ideas?
>Thanks
> 
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>Steve Powell
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