The Names Attribute of an Object

Description

names is a generic accessor function to the names attribute of an R object, typically a vector. The first form prints the names of the observations and the second sets the names. In this case, value must be a vector of character strings of the same length as x.

Usage

names(x, ...)
names.default(x)
names(x) <- value

Examples

# print the names attribute of the islands data set
names(islands)

# remove the names attribute
names(islands) <- NULL