Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.21.0102070752550.112748-100000@homer40.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2001-02-07T15:54:16Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Removing "row.names"
In-Reply-To: <14977.28086.8858.910911@mithrandir.hornik.net>
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> >>>>> Yves Gauvreau writes:
>
> > Try this
> > sampled <- data.frame(sample(rnorm(100),2))
> > colnames(sampled) <- " " # Or preferably something meaningful
> > sampled
>
> > 1 1.777068
> > 2 0.937161
>
> Ouch!
>
> This *surely* is a bug. How can it be possible to remove the variable
> names in a data frame?
He hasn't removed them, just set them to " ". We allow variable names that
are not valid R names (in fact, we rely on them in model.frame).
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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