change row names of data frame R code example

Example 1: r change row names of a dataframe

# Basic syntax:
rownames(your_dataframe) <- new_names
# Note, the new_names has to be the same length as the dataframe

# Example usage:
# Say you want to set the rownames to be numbered 1-end:
rownames(your_dataframe) <- 1:nrow(your_dataframe)

Example 2: turn row names into column in r

d <- cbind(rownames(d), data.frame(d, row.names=NULL))