Thank you both for the help. The below 1. works for me, too, both cases. I am not actually using "names" as an object name. I am writing:

for (i in 2:nrow(ctxheadlogtrans)){hist(ctxheadlogtrans[,i], br=100, main=gene.names.head[i])}

which gives me histograms titled "1", "2", "3", etc. But:

        gene.names.head[1]

gives me "1007_s_at", and     

        gene.names.head[2]

gives me "1053_at" and

        for (i in 2:5){print(gene.names.head[i])}

gives me a list of the titles I want.

I am using RAqua 1.8.1 on Mac OS X.

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks,

Graham

On May 31, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:

1. That seems strange. The following simplification of your function produced sensible results for me:
hist(1:4, main= "1098_s_at")


I got similar results from your exact statement after first defining names and ctx as follows:
names <- letters[1:3]
ctx <- data.frame(x=1:4, y=1:4, a=1:4)


In each case, I got a histogram with a standard text title at the top. What version of R are you running? If it's NOT R 1.9.0pat, you might try upgrading -- and then running "update.packages()".
2. "names" is that name of a function, and it is generally considered bad practice to mask function names with names of other objects, even though R can often (though not always) determine which object you want from the context. What do you get from "conflicts()"?
hope this helps. spencer graves


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I have a data frame "ctx" and an array "names", where names[i] is the column name for ctx[i], and am making histograms for each column of ctx:

for (i in 2:ncol(ctx)){hist(ctx[,i], br=100, main=names[i])}

The titles don't come out like I expect. Each names[i] is something like "1098_s_at" and R doesn't seem to like printing these. Instead, it prints "1" or "2" or "3" etc.

I have also tried binding ctx and names into a single data frame and referencing the first row of each [i] as the title, but I get the same result.

Can someone tell me how to get these titles attached?

Thanks,

Graham

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