cbind a dynamic column name from a string in R

Question

I want to cbind a column to the data frame with the column name dynamically assigned from a string

y_attribute = \"Survived\"
cbind(test_data, y_attribute =         


        

Answer 1

Not proud of this but I usually will do somethingl like this:

dyn.col <- "XYZ"
cbind(test.data, UNIQUE_NAMEXXX=NA)
colnames(test.data)[colnames(test.data == 'UNIQUE_NAMEXXX')] <- dyn.col