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How to remove column names from an R data frame?
There are situations when we might want to remove column names such as we want to manually replace the existing column names by new names or we simply don’t want to use them if we are very much familiar with the column characteristics. To remove the columns names we can simply set them to NULL as shown in the below examples.
Example1
Consider the below data frame −
set.seed(357) x1<−LETTERS[1:20] x2<−rnorm(20) x3<−rpois(20,5) df1<−data.frame(x1,x2,x3) df1
Output
x1 x2 x3 1 A −1.24111731 3 2 B −0.58320499 1 3 C 0.39474705 6 4 D 1.50421107 4 5 E 0.76679974 5 6 F 0.31746044 4 7 G −0.09997594 5 8 H 0.22703071 9 9 I −0.46901506 2 10 J 0.47652129 5 11 K −0.91164798 7 12 L −0.34177516 4 13 M 0.54674134 4 14 N −0.32720797 4 15 O 0.04108975 3 16 P −0.27603366 2 17 Q −0.59349654 2 18 R 0.17646182 6 19 S 0.50575975 4 20 T 1.00851578 3
Removing column names from df1 −
Example
names(df1)<−NULL df1
Output
1 A −1.24111731 3 2 B −0.58320499 1 3 C 0.39474705 6 4 D 1.50421107 4 5 E 0.76679974 5 6 F 0.31746044 4 7 G −0.09997594 5 8 H 0.22703071 9 9 I −0.46901506 2 10 J 0.47652129 5 11 K −0.91164798 7 12 L −0.34177516 4 13 M 0.54674134 4 14 N −0.32720797 4 15 O 0.04108975 3 16 P −0.27603366 2 17 Q −0.59349654 2 18 R 0.17646182 6 19 S 0.50575975 4 20 T 1.00851578 3
Example2
y1<−rexp(20,2.24) y2<−runif(20,2,10) y3<−rpois(20,2) df2<−data.frame(y1,y2,y3) df2
Output
y1 y2 y3 1 0.407887709 2.213538 1 2 1.740076315 8.314833 3 3 0.192889321 2.085092 1 4 0.166686518 2.295179 3 5 0.057761320 3.117768 5 6 0.001199064 8.917747 3 7 0.212810013 5.560138 1 8 0.295809473 6.418326 0 9 0.198128409 6.662312 3 10 0.711248734 4.899675 2 11 0.228512534 5.439995 1 12 0.614415810 7.231990 2 13 0.552638453 6.999130 3 14 1.181955638 2.650087 3 15 0.094478314 4.154438 4 16 0.114416419 2.687630 3 17 0.521020383 4.552469 2 18 0.145134708 3.100630 1 19 0.189475950 3.741155 1 20 0.055434073 7.268179 3
Removing column names from df2 −
Example
names(df2)<−NULL df2
Output
1 0.407887709 2.213538 1 2 1.740076315 8.314833 3 3 0.192889321 2.085092 1 4 0.166686518 2.295179 3 5 0.057761320 3.117768 5 6 0.001199064 8.917747 3 7 0.212810013 5.560138 1 8 0.295809473 6.418326 0 9 0.198128409 6.662312 3 10 0.711248734 4.899675 2 11 0.228512534 5.439995 1 12 0.614415810 7.231990 2 13 0.552638453 6.999130 3 14 1.181955638 2.650087 3 15 0.094478314 4.154438 4 16 0.114416419 2.687630 3 17 0.521020383 4.552469 2 18 0.145134708 3.100630 1 19 0.189475950 3.741155 1 20 0.055434073 7.268179 3
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