Martin Maechler <maechler <at> r-project.org> writes: ... > because colnames() and rownames() work via dimnames(), and so do > "colnames<-" and "rownames<-" --- > I think it would be unwise to change this, since it's well documented > property of these functions. > > As you noted yourself, using names() and "names<-" > i.e., > names(df1) <- "bla" > in the example above, is the recommended way for data frames and does not > change the rownames to character.
Thank you for this followup! It seems that I should have read the documentation more carefully. May I just suggest to add names in see also for row.names help page. Regards, Gregor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
