Hi John, Probably there is a more elegent solution, but I usually do something like
tmp <- get("x") names(tmp) <- letters[1:10] assign("x", tmp) rm("tmp") HTH, Ista On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:43 AM, John Edwards <jhnedwards...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get the following error when I try to modify the names of the object > returned by get(). Does anybody know how to do so? (I could use as.vector() > to remove the names, but I'm interested in how to modify the object returned > by get().) > > $ cat main_get_name_assign.R > x=1:10 > names(x)=letters[1:10] > > names(get('x'))=LETTERS[1:10] > #names(x)=LETTERS[1:10] > x > > $ Rscript main_get_name_assign.R >> x=1:10 >> names(x)=letters[1:10] >> >> names(get('x'))=LETTERS[1:10] > Error in names(get("x")) = LETTERS[1:10] : > target of assignment expands to non-language object > Execution halted > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.