Move a column to first position in a data frame

Question

I would like to have the last column of the data frame moved to the start (as first column). How can I do it in R?

My data.frame has about a thousand columns to chan

Answer 1

You can change the order of columns by adressing them in the new order by choosing them explicitly with data[,c(ORDER YOU WANT THEM TO BE IN)]

If you just want the last column to be first use: data[,c(ncol(data),1:(ncol(data)-1))]

> head(cars)
  speed dist
1     4    2
2     4   10
3     7    4
4     7   22
5     8   16
6     9   10

> head(cars[,c(2,1)])
  dist speed
1    2     4
2   10     4
3    4     7
4   22     7
5   16     8
6   10     9