On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:32 +0900, Tribo Laboy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there was an easy way to put information about the
> > measurement units used for each column of a data frame ...
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers,
> >
> > TL
>
> You could add attributes:
>
> dummy <- data.frame(x = rnorm(10), y = rbeta(10, 2, 5), z = rlnorm(10))
> dummy
>
> attr(dummy, "units") <- c("m s-2", "Kg", "m")
> dummy
> attributes(dummy)
>
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Hi Gavin,
Thanks. That works for me just great.
Regrads,
TL
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