On 04/11/2021 10:38 a.m., Jorgen Harmse via R-help
wrote:> Can someone please explain what Leonard Mada is trying to do? As far as I
know, names is not generic and there is no names.data.frame because it?s not
needed. (A data.frame seems to be just a named list with some extra
functionality that depends on every element being a vector with the same length
and some overloading of list functions to ensure that that is always true.) The
other answers confused me more.
According to the help page, names() is a generic function. Running
`methods(names)` lists quite a few methods, but you're right, there's no
names.data.frame because it's not needed, the default method is fine.
Duncan Murdoch