On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Christian Brechbühler .... wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Martin Maechler > <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >> >> Today, I was looking for an elegant (and efficient) way >> to get a named (atomic) vector by selecting one column of a data frame. >> Of course, the vector names must be the rownames of the data frame. >> >> Ok, here is the quiz, I know one quite "cute"/"slick" answer, but was >> wondering if there are obvious better ones, and >> also if this should not become more idiomatic (hence "R-devel"): >> >> Consider this toy example, where the dataframe already has only >> one column : >> >> > nv <- c(a=1, d=17, e=101); nv >> a d e >> 1 17 101 >> >> > df <- as.data.frame(cbind(VAR = nv)); df >> VAR >> a 1 >> d 17 >> e 101 >> >> Now how, can I get 'nv' back from 'df' ? I.e., how to get >> >> > identical(nv, .......) >> [1] TRUE >> >> where ...... only uses 'df' (and no non-standard R packages)? > > >> identical(nv, df[,1]) > [1] TRUE > >> In my solution, the above '.......' consists of 17 letters. > > > I count 6 in mine
But it is not a solution in a current version of R! though it's still interesting that df[,1] worked in some incantation of R. What's your sessionInfo()? Martin > > /Christian ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel