search for: dimnamenames

I've just started digging into Andreas's old report: > a <- array(0,c(2,2,2)); > dimnames(a)<-list(hansi=1:2, pepi=c("a","b"), karli=3:4) > dimnames(a[,,1]) # losing component names [[1]] [1] "1" "2" [[2]] [1] "a" "b" Now, this would be fairly easily fixed (I think) which would also make it compatible with S3.

I think that the "dimname names" of tables and arrays could make aperm() and apply() (and probably some other functions) easier to use. (dimname names are, for example, created by table() ) The use would be something like: -- x <-table( from=sample(3,100,rep=T), to=sample(5,100,rep=T)) trans <- x / apply(x,"from",sum) y <- aperm( trans,