similar to: Correcting the display of colnames and rownames

Dear all, I have used 'read.table' to create a data frame of 720 columns and 360 rows (and assigned this to 'Jan'). The row and column names are numeric: > columnnames <- sprintf("%.2f", seq(from = -179.75, to = 179.75, length = 720)). > rnames <- sprintf("%.2f", seq(from = -89.75, to = 89.75, length = 360)) > colnames(Jan) <- columnnames

Dear all, I have a grid of 720 columns by 360 rows of global population density values, and hope to convert this to column format using the 'melt' command in the 'reshape' package. I'm not receiving any errors as such, but when the code has finished running, my output looks like this: > head(PopDens.long) Latitude Longitude PopDensity 1 -84.75 V1 0 2

Dear R Users, I am using the reshape package to reformat gridded data into column format using the code shown below. However, when I display the resulting object, a single column is fomed (instead of three) and all the latitude values (which should be in either column one or two) are collected at the bottom. Also, the NA values aren't removed, despite this being requested in the code. Code:

Dear all, I am attempting to add row and column names to a series of tables (120 in total) which have 2 variable parts to their name. These tables are created as follows: # Create table indexes index <- expand.grid(year = sprintf("%04d", seq(1986, 1995)), month = sprintf("%02d", 1:12)) # Read in and assign file names to individual objects with variable name components

I have a list of file names, and a list of data frames contained in those files. mynames <- list.files() mydata <- lapply(mynames, read.delim) Every file contains two columns. > colnames(mydata[[1]]) [1] "Name" "NumReads" > colnames(mydata[[2]]) [1] "Name" "NumReads" I can set the colnames easily enough with a for loop. for (i in

I noticed something surprising (in R 2.2.1 on WinXP) According to the documentation, rownames and colnames are character vectors. Assigning a vector of class POSIXct or POSIXlt as rownames or colnames therefore is not strictly according to the rules. In some cases, R performs a reasonable typecast, but in some other cases where the same typecast also would be possible, it does not. Assigning a

I noticed something surprising (in R 2.2.1 on WinXP) According to the documentation, rownames and colnames are character vectors. Assigning a vector of class POSIXct or POSIXlt as rownames or colnames therefore is not strictly according to the rules. In some cases, R performs a reasonable typecast, but in some other cases where the same typecast also would be possible, it does not. Assigning a

Data frames are lists of columns. The names() function is appropriate for lists. It doesn't pay to fall into the trap of thinking that data frames are truly symmetric between columns and rows, because there is a performance penalty for accessing rows that is greater than the cost of accessing columns. With that in mind, thinking of data frames as lists is preferred, so names is preferred

Hi all I was wondering whether there has ever been an update on the rownames and colnames behaviour as described by Eric below? I still get the same behaviour, exactly as described by Eric, on my WinXP installation of R-2.3.0. I also posted a message to r-help on Friday but looking through the online archives it seems to have not made it to the list. I would agree with Eric that a consistent

The help text for row+colnames {base} states: "For a data frame, rownames and colnames eventually call row.names and names respectively, but the latter are preferred." Why are they "preferred"? Why is it names(), not col.names()? I have only ever used names() for vectors - I'm surprised it works on data.frames... IMO this is not great for code readability, thus

Looking into several different parts of R../src/library/base/R/*.R has led me to the conclusion that quite a bit of code doubling could be saved by using the following two functions whose naming philosophy is derived from that of NROW() & NCOL(): COLNAMES <- function(x) if(is.null(n <- colnames(x))) paste(seq(length=NCOL(x))) else n ROWNAMES <- function(x)

Hi, I am working on some microarray data, and have some problems with writing iterations. In essence, the problem is that objects with three dimensions don't have rownames and colnames. These colnames and rownames would otherwise still be there in 2 dimensional objects. I need to generate multiple iterations of a 2 means-clustering algorithm, and these objects thus probably need 3

Dear all, I have a data frame in which the columns need to be ordered. The first column X is at the right position, but the remaining columns X1-Xn should be ordered like this: X1, X2, X3 etc instead of like below. > colnames(pos1) [1] "X" "X1" "X10" "X11" "X12" "X13" "X14" "X15" "X16"

Hi all, How get colnames and rownames in Rcpp method? attecthed file : RGui.exe capture my work environment : R version : 2.11.1 OS : WinXP Pro sp3 Thanks and best regards. Young-Ju, Park from Korea [1][rKWLzcpt.zNp8gmPEwGJCA00] [@from=dllmain&rcpt=r%2Dhelp%40r%2Dproject%2Eorg&msgid=%3C20100728211143%2EH

There's a bit of a symmetry issue, which may or may not be important (led to 15 seconds of confusion until I got my bearings straight): row.names, rownames; colnames, no col.names? I _NOW_ realize the difference between row.names and rownames, but is there any reason not to have col.names for re-naming columns in a data.frame? (if there is, I don't particular need to know it, but it

Dear princely R developers to whom I owe so much of my daily productivity level, I am wondering how indexing by row and column names are implemented. That is, when I have a matrix with named rows (or columns) and I then index into that matrix using the string names (rather than integers), how does R scan through the list of names in order to figure out which row/column to use? My current

Hi, #make example data dat <- data.frame(matrix(rnorm(15),ncol=5)) colnames(dat) <- c("ab","cd","ef","gh","ij") If I want to get a subset of the data for the middle 3 columns, and I know the names of the start column and the end column, I can do this: mysub <- subset(dat,select=c(cd:gh)) If I wanted to do this just on the column names,

Sir, I want to export the results of R in a data frame. So I want to give rownames,columnnames & title to the data-frame.I have applied the following: data.frame(matrix(c(...),nrow=,ncol=),row.names=c("a","b"),col.names=c("c","d"),title="aaa") But, it does not work. Can you help me? Regards, Suman Dhara [[alternative HTML version

Hello, I have another stupid question. I hope you can give me a hint how to solve this: I have a list and one element is again a list containing matrices, all of the same dimensions. Now, I'd like to set the dimnames for all matrices: example code: m1 <- matrix(1:25, nrow=5) m2 <- matrix(26:50, nrow=5) # ... there can be much more than two matrices l <- list() l[[1]] <-

I have the following code, from which I get the following error message: Error in dim(data) <- dim : attempt to set an attribute on NULL I think the error is coming from the part of my code in BOLD RED. The script works fine until then. #Load libraries source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite() library(limma) library(Biobase) #change directory to folder where