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Naming your columns / rows

Let's look at cash again:

cash

  comp cash yr
1    A 1000  1
2    A 4000  3
3    A  550  4
4    B 1500  1
5    B 1100  2
6    B  750  4
7    B 6000  5

Wait, that's not right! It looks like someone has changed your column names! Don't worry, you can change them back using colnames() just like you did with names() back with vectors.

Similarly, you can change the row names using rownames(), but this is less common.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to R for Finance

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Exercise instructions

  • The altered data frame cash is in your workspace.
  • Fix your column names by using colnames() and assigning a character vector of "company", "cash_flow", and "year" in that order.
  • Print out the fixed colnames() of cash.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Fix your column names


# Print out the column names of cash
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