| setNames {stats} | R Documentation |
This is a convenience function that sets the names on an object and returns the object. It is most useful at the end of a function definition where one is creating the object to be returned and would prefer not to store it under a name just so the names can be assigned.
setNames(object, nm)
object |
an object for which a names attribute will be meaningful |
nm |
a character vector of names to assign to the object |
An object of the same sort as object with the new names assigned.
Douglas M. Bates and Saikat DebRoy
setNames( 1:3, c("foo", "bar", "baz") )
# this is just a short form of
tmp <- 1:3
names(tmp) <- c("foo", "bar", "baz")
tmp