> > There was some discussion > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FJuliaStats%2FDataFrames.jl%2Fissues%2F187&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGtGVSql7WdSPtRuUaXu6Goner3Wg> > > about indexes on Github, but it didn't really get anywhere. I'm also not > comfortable with that decision to not have indexes. It makes the dataframes > asymmetric, whereas Pandas' and R's are "matrices with named axes". >
Thank you. I'm not sure if that is the most recent conversation about it, but it has been a while, so maybe we should ask what is the current consensus on this issue. However, I can see that this is tricky. If there is a design decision to not rely on indexes for basic functionality, that's okay. But in the meantime, the solution of having a fake/printed index looks good generally but provides poor usability.
