[R] column name handling and long labels

[Werner Wernersen]

That's perfect! The subset way is very easy to use and
I have to play around a bit more with label() which
seems quite complex.

Thanks a million,
  Werner

--- Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
schrieb:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Werner Wernersen
> <pensterfuzzer at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two loosely related questions which could
> make
> > my live again a bit easier:
> >
> > 1) Is there a simple way to select a range of
> columns
> > in a data frame using column names?
> > I am thinking of something like
> mydf[1,"col4":"col8"]
> 
> Try this using builtin data frame anscombe which has
> columns
> x1 to x4 followed by y1 to y4:
> 
> subset(anscombe, select = x3:y2)
> 
> >
> > 2) I have a data frame with many columns and they
> all
> > have short variable names which is good in most
> cases
> > but sometimes it would be nice to have also a
> longer
> > descriptive name / label attached to the variable
> > which could then be used for printing and latex
> > output. Has anybody come up with a convenient way
> to
> > do that?
> > Right now, I am using always match or merge in
> case of
> > row names.
> >
> 
> See ?label in package Hmisc.
> 
> > Many thanks,
> >  Werner
> 



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