'Call a specific column name in R
colnames gives me the column names for a whole dataframe. Is there any way to get the name of one specified column. i would need this for naming labels when plotting data in ggplot.
So say my data is like this:
df1 <- data.frame(a=sample(1:50,10), b=sample(1:50,10), c=sample(1:50,10))
I would need something like paste(colnames(df1[,1])) which obviously won't work.
any ideas?
Solution 1:[1]
names(df1)[1]
will give you the name of the first column. So too will
names(df1[1])
Neither uses a comma.
Solution 2:[2]
Would colnames(df1)[1] solve the problem?
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Henry |
| Solution 2 | hiirulainen |