Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gurus,
>
> Can I rely on the rownames() function, when applied to a matrix,
> always returning either NULL or an object of type character? It
> seems that row names can be entered as integers, but as of now
> (R 2.4.1 on Windows) the function returns character vectors, not
> numbers (which is my desired result).
(To clarify my point on this Friday afternoon: the observed
behavior is my desired result. I'm just asking, can I count on
it?)
> I am using elements of the returned vector to index the matrix.
> e.g.,
>
> nams <- rownames(mymat)
> for (thisnam in nams) {
> myvec <- mymat[thisnam, ]
> # ... more code ...
> }
--
Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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