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

header.true <- function(df) {
  names(df) <- as.character(unlist(df[1,]))
  df[-1,]
}

Test

df1 <- data.frame(c("a", 1,2,3), c("b", 4,5,6))
header.true(df1)
  a b
2 1 4
3 2 5
4 3 6