Your mat variable is not a matrix, but a vector (a named vector), therefore it does not have dimensions or dimnames.
Try names(mat) <- NULL Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Gundala Viswanath > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 6:32 PM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Can't Destroy Dim Names > > Dear all, > > I have the following matrix: > > > str(mat) > Named chr [1:32268] "yQAAA" "jQAAQ" "UQAAg" "FQAAw" "1QABA" ... > - attr(*, "names")= chr [1:32268] "CAAAAAAAAA" "CAAAAAAAAC" > "CAAAAAAAAG" "CAAAAAAAAT" ... > > > I want to destroy the attribute yielding only this: > > > str(mat) > Named chr [1:32268] "yQAAA" "jQAAQ" "UQAAg" "FQAAw" "1QABA" ... > > > But why this command fail to do it? > > > dimnames(mat) <- NULL > > Btw, the object size for keeping matrix with dim names is greater > than without, right? > > > > - Gundala Viswanath > Jakarta - Indonesia > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
