how to give column names for a data in R

Question

[mms140130]

hello,

I have a file with 1117 columns and I have the names of these columns but how to give the names to those columns

it is not efficient to write

colnames(data)=c("name1", "name2",.....) because they are 1117 names

any help

[mms140130]

@Charles Plessy could you please write your comment here

[Charles Plessy]

I do not know what is going wrong with Biostars, I wrote my comment and then it gave me:

404 Error
Page at /p/236697/ not found!

Anyway, it is now covered by the other comments (read from a file or use paste)

[shenwei356]

where are the column names? in another file?

[mms140130]

yes the are in another file

[Guangchuang Yu]

nms <- readLines("your_file_that_stores_colname_one_at_each_line")
colnames(data) <- nms

[mms140130]

Thank you very much :)

[ddiez]

What R commands are you using to read your data?

Answer 1

[theobroma22]

N = 1117; nms = paste0("Name", 1:N); colnames(data) = nms; rm(N, nms)