After transforming a dataframe I would like to assign heads names to the columns based on an existing row My headers are currently row names X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X9 I would like to get rid of that and use the following row as column headers without having to type them out since I have many The only solution I have for this is to export and re-load the data with header T

The key here is to unlist the row first colnames DF lt - as character unlist DF 1 DF DF -1

assign headers based on existing row in dataframe in R

The key here is to unlist the row first.

colnames(DF) <- as.character(unlist(DF[1,]))
DF = DF[-1, ]

~ Answered on 2016-05-20 08:10:52