> You can probably do this by constructing a call to the `names<-` replacement > function, but it's really bad style. Don't write R code that has external > side effects if you can avoid it. In this case, you'll almost certainly get > more maintainable code by writing your function to return a copy of x with > new names, rather than trying to modify the original.
And for that task, you might find setNames useful: "It is most useful at the end of a function definition where one is creating the object to be returned and would prefer not to store it under a name just so the names can be assigned." Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
