Using variable value as column name in data.frame or cbind
Is there a way in R to have a variable evaluated as a column name when creating a data frame (or in similar situations like using cbind)? For example a <- "mycol"; d <- data.frame(a=1:10) this creates a data frame with one column named a rather than mycol . This is less important than the case that would help me remove quite a few lines from my code: a <- "mycol"; d <- cbind(some.dataframe, a=some.sequence) My current code has the tortured: names(d)[dim(d)[2]] <- a; which is aesthetically barftastic. > d <- setNames( data.frame(a=1:10), a) > d mycol 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 Is