On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Martin Morgan wrote:
> colnames on a data.frame with implicit row.names
>
>> df <- data.frame(x=1:6000000)
>
> is slow
>
>> system.time(colnames(df))
> [1] 21.655 0.327 21.987 0.000 0.000
>> system.time(names(df))
> [1] 0 0 0 0 0
>
> because colnames calls dimnames calls row.names.data.frame calls
> as.character on the implicit row.names.
So use names() and not colnames():
rownames and colnames for matrices
row.names and names for data frames.
All colnames assumes is that there is a dimnames method: this could be
relevant for objects inheriting from "data.frame", but there is a price
for generality.
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Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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