use first row data as column names in r

Question

I have a dirty dataset that I could not read it with header = T. After I read and clean it, I would like to use the now first row data as the column name. I tri

Answer 1

Sam Firke's ever useful package janitor has a function especially for this: row_to_names.

Example from his documentation:

library(janitor)

x <- data.frame(X_1 = c(NA, "Title", 1:3),
           X_2 = c(NA, "Title2", 4:6))
x %>%
  row_to_names(row_number = 2)