I would do: QQ.frame <- data.frame(round(QQ,2)) name(QQ.Frame) <- paste("foo",seq(1:7))
foo 1 foo 2 foo 3 foo 4 foo 5 foo 6 foo 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 sorry my indent got a little off. Is this what you are looking for? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-I-can-explore-the-variable-names-in-my-covariance-matrix-tp4445149p4448858.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.