As a further aside, names is also not the best choice for a variable name for 
the same reason.

Richard.


Erik Iverson wrote:
row.names is a function that takes a data.frame as an argument. So how about

 > row.names(data)

?

As an aside, 'data' is not the best choice for a variable name in R, since there is a function called 'data' that will get overridden if you do this ...

Patrick Richardson wrote:
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

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