Hi, I found that displaying a raw vector with long names is not as pretty as for other types of named vectors: > r <- charToRaw("Mz") > r [1] 4d 7a > names(r) <- c("M", "zzzzzz") > r M zzzzzz 4d 7a The names and the values are not aligned :-( > i <- as.integer(r) > i [1] 77 122 > names(i) <- c("M", "zzzzzz") > i M zzzzzz 77 122 Much better :-) (Note that the names were lost during coercion... surprising but documented.) Cheers, H.