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I'm using 1.9.0 on Windoze 2k and I created a numeric matrix and used colnames() to give it some column names, but if I try to select a column using matrixname$validname I get a null return but if I use matrixname[,4] it works fine. Looking at the help I think this is because a matrix is not a recursive structure and I think it's saying I shouldn't be surprised nor attempt this. I'm in the process of transferring all my stats work to R having used a...