" Running `methods(names)` lists quite a few methods, ..." Depending on what packages you have loaded of course.
Bert On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:43 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/11/2021 10:38 a.m., Jorgen Harmse via R-help wrote: > > Can someone please explain what Leonard Mada is trying to do? As far as > I know, names is not generic and there is no names.data.frame because it’s > not needed. (A data.frame seems to be just a named list with some extra > functionality that depends on every element being a vector with the same > length and some overloading of list functions to ensure that that is always > true.) The other answers confused me more. > > According to the help page, names() is a generic function. Running > `methods(names)` lists quite a few methods, but you're right, there's no > names.data.frame because it's not needed, the default method is fine. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.