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List:       r-devel
Subject:    Re: [Rd] names drop for columns from data.frame (PR#14002)
From:       Peter Ehlers <ehlers () ucalgary ! ca>
Date:       2009-10-24 21:54:32
Message-ID: 4AE37798.8010308 () ucalgary ! ca
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Have you tried names(a[,1,drop=FALSE])?
Then have a look at help("[").

-Peter

veraf@clemson.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Francisco Vera
> Version: 2.9.2
> OS: Windows
> Submission from: (NULL) (74.248.242.164)
> 
> 
> Run the following commands:
> 
> a<-data.frame(x=1:2,y=3:4,row.names=c("i","j"))
> names(a$x)
> names(a[,1])
> 
> For names(a$x) I get NULL instead of c("i","j"). Same thing happens with
> names(a[,1]). It works fine for rows, i.e., names(a[1,]) gives what is supposed
> to.
> 
> It also works fine for matrices. If you issue the commands
> b<-matrix(1:4,ncol=2,dimnames=list(c("x","y"),c("i","j")))
> names(b[,1])
> names(b[1,])
> 
> Thanks
> 
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-- 
Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary

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