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I tried to change the name of a variable/column using the -dplyr- package but I am not having much luck.

Using the sample MaunaLoa data, I attempt to change the variable name from CO2 to ppm. Based on the help information, I specified new_name equal to old_name

MaunaLoa = read.csv("http://course1.winona.edu/bdeppa/FIN%20335/Datasets/CO2%20Mauna%20Loa.csv")
dplyr::rename(MaunaLoa, ppm = CO2)

The command seems to work fine but when I check, the variable name has not changed.

names(MaunaLoa)

"Time"  "Month" "Year"  "CO2"

I get the following error message - I get the same message when using my own dataset so I am unsure of why.

Francesca
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assign change to data

MaunaLoa <- dplyr::rename(MaunaLoa, ppm = CO2)
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