Try the function
rownames()
Andrew
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:29:37AM -0700, agent dunham
wrote:> Dear community,
>
> I uploaded an excel with read.xls. My xls file actually have a column which
> is an id, ("plot" is the id) :
>
> plot height area
> 34 7.6 5.4
> 85 3.2 4.1
> 89 5.4 8.4
> 121 6.7 6.2
> ...
> 1325 2.1 1.5
>
> However R uses another id, this way:
>
> r id plot height area
> 1 34 7.6 5.4
> 2 85 3.2 4.1
> 3 89 5.4 8.4
> 4 121 6.7 6.2
> ...
> 314 1325 2.1 1.5
>
> I'd like that R used "plot" id because I delete some rows
while studying
> regression, and R seems to be using the first id 1,2,3,4,...,314. Sometimes
> it's a mess to understand what R means in the plots when, for instance,
> states that data 200 is influential
>
> Thanks in advance, user at host.com
>
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