Dear Xin,
You really provided great information! You can use the function,
names(). Here is an example:
# mimic your data
a <- c("ae21" = 1.863869)
a
names(a)
# the result should be
> names(a)
[1] "ae21"
Hope that helps, and thanks for making it easy to answer,
Josh
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Xgong <xingon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about vector access. sorry if it is too basic.
>
>> a
> ae21
> 1.863869
>
> My question is how to retrieve "ae21" from vector "a". here is some other
> information you might need.
>
>> str(a)
> Named num 1.86
> - attr(*, "names")= chr"ae21"
>> class(a)
> [1] "numeric"
>> is.vector(a)
> [1] TRUE
>> a[[1]]
> [1] 1.863869
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
>
> Xin
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