List, I'm trying to extract the row names of a table I have read into R.
> data <- read.table("mesodata.txt", header=TRUE, row.names=1) When I try to extract them using, > names <- data$row.names I get, > names NULL I've tried changing to a matrix, data frame, etc. and still get "NULL". I've checked ?row.names as well as help on extracting part of an object, etc. and unless I'm missing something obvious (likely), I can't figure out how to extract them. BACKGROUND I want to extract the row names (which are basically gene id's) as well as some other columns (which I can do successfully) and "cbind" them into another data frame (which I can also do successfully). I just can't get the row names extracted (Assigned) to an seperate object. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Many Thanks, Patrick > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extracting-%22row.names%22-tp18072521p18072521.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.