names {base} | R Documentation |
Functions to get or set the names of an object.
names(x, ...) names(x) <- value
x |
an R object. |
value |
a character vector of the same length as x , or
NULL . |
For names
, NULL
or a character vector of the same length
as x
.
For names<-
, the updated object. (Note that the value of
names(x) <- value
is that of the assignment, value
, not
the return value from the left-hand side.)
# print the names attribute of the islands data set names(islands) # remove the names attribute names(islands) <- NULL z <- list(a=1, b="c", c=1:3) names(z) # change just the name of the third element. names(z)[3] <- "c2" z