Hi,
I'm not sure it's even possible (and if it is I don't know how, but I'm
no expert).
But I think it doesn't make much sense to have only one named column.
Just give it a vector:
vect_names <- c("myname1", "myname2", "myname3")
colnames(my_matrix) <- vect_names
HTH,
Ivan
Le 9/27/2010 10:26, Lorenzo Cattarino a écrit :
> Hi R-users
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> I can not change the name of one column only of my matrix.
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> my_matrix<- matrix (1:12,ncol=3)
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> colnames(my_matrix)[1]<- 'myname'
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> Error in dimnames(x)<- dn :
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> length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
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> thank you for your help
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> Lorenzo
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