[R] Re: cannot assign dimnames

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Dan Bebber <danbebber <at> forestecology.co.uk> writes:


: Please ignore my earlier message on this topic. I was under the mistaken
: impression that dimnames() named the dimensions themselves, rather than the
: indices within the dimensions.

What you are referring to is done in R by referring to the names of
the dimnames, as opposed to the dimnames, themselves.  Here is an
example:

R> mat <- matrix(1:12,4, dimnames = list(letters[1:4],LETTERS[1:3]))
R> names(dimnames(mat)) <- c("FirstDim", "SecondDim")
R> mat
        SecondDim
FirstDim A B  C
       a 1 5  9
       b 2 6 10
       c 3 7 11
       d 4 8 12