Elevate a row to be the column names of a data.frame.

row_to_names(dat, row_number, remove_row = TRUE, remove_rows_above = TRUE)

Arguments

dat

The input data.frame

row_number

The row of dat containing the variable names

remove_row

Should the row row_number be removed from the resulting data.frame?

remove_rows_above

If row_number != 1, should the rows above row_number - that is, between 1:(row_number-1) - be removed from the resulting data.frame?

Value

A data.frame with new names (and some rows removed, if specified)

Examples

x <- data.frame(X_1 = c(NA, "Title", 1:3), X_2 = c(NA, "Title2", 4:6)) x %>% row_to_names(row_number = 2)
#> Title Title2 #> 3 1 4 #> 4 2 5 #> 5 3 6