Actually, better to use the names() extractor. ?names
-- Bert Sent from my iPhone -- please excuse typos. On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > Hello, > > About the cause of your problem, it's difficult to have an idea without any > code. But maybe it's helpfull to know that 'names' is an attribute, so you > can see its value with > > attr(x, "names") # just 'names' attribute > attributes(x) # values of all attributes > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > Em 26-07-2012 22:19, zz escreveu: >> Hello, >> >> I am using names function to name an array. >> It works first time when I use *as.numeric(names(myVar1)* >> However, at a place later, when I tried to use a very similar line of code >> *as.numeric(names(myVar2)*, it always returned 'numeric(0)' (or if I only >> type 'names(myVar2), it gave me NULL'. >> >> Both myVar1 and myVar2 are type of integer. The only difference that I can >> tell is where the names function are called in my code. >> >> Does anyone have an idea what may cause the problem? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/names-function-not-working-at-the-2nd-place-in-a-program-tp4638004.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
