[R] Extracting Header From Table

[John Fox]

Dear Mathew,

At 12:44 AM 8/6/2002 +0100, Dowle, Matthew [EQRE] wrote:

>Peter,
>Try colnames(Table). Beware if you had used lower case t you would have
>masked the table() R function.
>Rgds,
>Matthew

Actually, a variable named table defined in the global environment won't 
mask a function of the same name in an attached package.

John

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>From: PLauren at genelogic.com [mailto:PLauren at genelogic.com]
>Sent: 05 August 2002 21:12
>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] Extracting Header From Table
>
>
>I read a tab-delimited ASCII table, with a header, into R thus.
>Table <- read.table(FileName, header=TRUE, sep="\t");
>
>Is there any way I can now retrieve the header.  The header information is
>obviously there since I see it, along with the values of the first row of
>data, when I type
>Table[1, ]
>
>However, I cannot find an R function to retrieve the header information
>from "Table".  When I try
> > help.search("header")
>
>I get
>No help files found with alias or title matching `header'
>
>I would be grateful if someone could tell me how I might retrieve the
>header information.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter.
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