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

While @sbha has already offered a tidyverse solution, I would like to leave a fully pipeable dplyr option. I agree that this should could be an incredibly useful function.

library(dplyr)
data.frame(x = c("a", 1, 2, 3), y = c("b", 4, 5, 6)) %>%
  `colnames<-`(.[1, ]) %>%
  .[-1, ]