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

Similar to some of the other answers, here is a dplyr/tidyverse option:

library(tidyverse)

names(df) <- df %>% slice(1) %>% unlist()
df <- df %>% slice(-1)