Rename multiple column at once using rename() function
We can rename multiple columns at once using a vector that is by passing columns to vector.
Syntax:
rename(dataframe,c(newcolumn1=oldcolumn1,newcolumn2=oldcolumn2…,,newcolumn n=oldcolumn n))
Example: R program to rename multiple columns at once
R
# load the library library(dplyr) # create dataframe with 3 columns id,name # and address data1=data.frame(id=c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1,4,2), name=c('sravan','ojaswi','bobby', 'gnanesh','rohith','pinkey', 'dhanush','sravan','gnanesh', 'ojaswi'), address=c('hyd','hyd','ponnur','tenali', 'vijayawada','vijayawada','guntur', 'hyd','tenali','hyd')) # rename multiple columns # name with first_name # id with roll_no # address with street rename(data1,c(first_name=name,roll_no=id,street=address)) |
Output:
Rename the column name in R using Dplyr
In this article, we are going to rename the column name using dplyr package in the R programming language.
Dataset in use: