What is the best way to transpose a data.frame in R and to set one of the columns to be the header for the new transposed table?

Question

What is the best way to transpose a data.frame in R and to set one of the columns to be the header for the new transposed table? I have coded up a way to do this below. As I am

Answer 1

Well you could do it in 2 steps by using

# Transpose table YOU WANT
fooData.T <- t(fooData[,2:ncol(fooData)])

# Set the column headings from the first column in the original table
colnames(fooData.T) <- fooData[,1] 

The result being a matrix which you're probably aware of, that's due to class issues when transposing. I don't think there will be a single line way to do this given the lack of naming abilities in the transpose step.