I did not see anything that completely matches my issue, so I will address it here. In my dataset (lets call it microbes) I am simply trying to switch the rows (BacteriaType) and the columns (SD1-SD4) for my data. My data look like this:
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Just to orient you to the type of data I have, in this example, SD1/SD2/SD3/SD4 is considered participant ID. For example, for participant SD1, there are 10 types of B1, for participant SD3, there are 9 types of B3, etc.
I simply created another data frame (called trans.microbes) and used t(microbes) to transpose the data, which worked fine. So to summarize what I did so far:
trans.microbes = t(microbes)
The problem is, the above code gave me an extra row with generic variables names (V1, V2...Vn). Okay, no problem, just delete the first row using this code:
trans.microbes = trans.microbes[-1,]
However, THIS did not do anything; those generic variable names are still in the first row. How do I remove these generic variable names so that the names I created (after transposing, this would be the BacteriaType) remain? Furthermore, is there a command that I can put in the syntax for transposing to prevent the generic variable names from being created?
I know it is something simple, but I just learned R literally two months ago, so I don't know how to solve this.
