Extract column names from df as a vector - or copy / paste column names to new df?

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is there a way to extract column names from a df and convert into a vector? In fact, what I am trying to do is rbing two df's, the second has no names so returning a name matching error? Maybe there is an easier way to copy the df1 column names to df2 so rbind will work?

In general, `names(df)` or `colnames(df)` both work to get the column names as a vector. And as the earlier comment shows, you can use them to modify the names as well, e.g., `names(df) — Gregor Thomas, Aug 12 '20 at 14:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '20 at 14:02

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df3 <- rbind(df1, setNames(df2, names(df1)))

answered Aug 12 '20 at 14:02

Mikael Jagan

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Greaty, thank you. Perfect – Montana_innit96 Aug 13 '20 at 06:11

Extract column names from df as a vector - or copy / paste column names to new df?

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