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2. You would do well to go through an R tutorial -- the "Introduction to R" ships with R, but there are many more on the Web -- as you appear to be applying spreadsheet type concepts to R's data.frame data structure. While there certainly is a resemblance, conflating the two is a grave error that will get you into a lot of trouble. If you wish to use R, learn R; don't intuit or presume. 3. One way to simulate what you want to do is to attach a "subhead" attribute to your data frame, class this structure( e.g. c("frame_with_subhead","data.frame") ) and write a (S3) print.frame_with_subhead method to print objects of the class in some suitable way. See ?attributes, ?attr, and ?UseMethod. However, all these man pages will be terse and assume that you have done the aforementioned homework of learning R. You could, of course, use S4 classes or any other OO system available for R instead of S3. HTH. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Liao, Hongsheng <hl...@odu.edu> wrote: > I know how to make one-row header for a data frame using "colnames". Is > there any function to insert sub-header between the first row of the data and > the header? Thanks > > Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, PhD. > Lab Manager > Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology > Old Dominion University > 757-683-4571 > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.