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

Take a step back, when you read your data use skip=1 in read.table to miss out the first line entirely. This should make life a bit easier when you're cleaning data, particularly for data type. This is key as your problem stems from your data being encoded as factor.

You can then read in your column names separately with nrows=1 in read.table.