Reset row names to 1:n

Reset the row names of a data frame x to 1:nrow(x) by setting the row.names attribute to NULL.

Usage

resetRowNames(x)

Arguments

x

data frame or matrix

Examples

persons <- data.frame(id = c(1, 2, 3), name = c("Peter", "Paul", "Mary"))

persons.ordered <- persons[order(persons$name), ]

# Original row names
persons.ordered
#>   id  name
#> 3  3  Mary
#> 2  2  Paul
#> 1  1 Peter

# Reset row names
resetRowNames(persons.ordered)
#>   id  name
#> 1  3  Mary
#> 2  2  Paul
#> 3  1 Peter