R help - Mar 2005 - Subject [applying labels to a scatter plot matrix]

Dear R
Is there a way to apply row names as labels to a scatter plot matrix , 
I tried

pairs(dogs, labels=row.names)
Error in strwidth(labels, "user") : cannot coerce type closure to
character
vector

I'm not sure what this means, however maybe you might know of a way to do
this?

brett stansfield

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 14:36 +1200, Brett Stansfield
wrote:
> Dear R
> Is there a way to apply row names as labels to a scatter plot matrix , 
> I tried
> 
> pairs(dogs, labels=row.names)
> Error in strwidth(labels, "user") : cannot coerce type closure to
character
> vector
> 
> I'm not sure what this means, however maybe you might know of a way to
do
> this?

Brett,

'row.names' is a function, that either gets or sets row names in a data
frame. It requires an argument, which is a data frame, such as:
> row.names(dogs)
By itself you are attempting to set the labels to a function:
> typeof(row.names)
[1] "closure"

Thus, the error message.

Try:
> pairs(dogs, labels=row.names(dogs))
If 'dogs' is not a data frame, but is a matrix or array, try using:
> pairs(dogs, labels=rownames(dogs))
See ?row.names and ?rownames for more information.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz