[R] how to change the dataframe labels' ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Sorry, no: row.names<-() is what you want.

rownames for matrices (and arrays)
row.names for data frames.

Using them the other way round usually works but can be very inefficient.
>From R-devel (where the worst inefficiencies are circumvented)

      The extractor functions try to do something sensible for any
      matrix-like object 'x'.  If the object has 'dimnames' the first
      component is used as the row names, and the second component (if
      any) is used for the column names.  For a data frame, 'rownames'
      and 'colnames' are calls to 'row.names' and 'names' respectively,
      but the latter are preferred.


On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, talepanda wrote:

> rownames()<-  is what you want.
>
>> dat<-data.frame(V1=sample(10),V2=sample(10))
>> dat
>   V1 V2
> 1   2  5
> 2   3  8
> 3   8  4
> 4   9  6
> 5   6  2
> 6   5  7
> 7  10  3
> 8   4  9
> 9   1 10
> 10  7  1
>> dat<-dat[order(dat$V2),]
>> dat
>   V1 V2
> 10  7  1
> 5   6  2
> 7  10  3
> 3   8  4
> 1   2  5
> 4   9  6
> 6   5  7
> 2   3  8
> 8   4  9
> 9   1 10
>> rownames(dat)<-1:dim(dat)[1]
> ## or rownames(dat)<-dat$V2
>> dat
>   V1 V2
> 1   7  1
> 2   6  2
> 3  10  3
> 4   8  4
> 5   2  5
> 6   9  6
> 7   5  7
> 8   3  8
> 9   4  9
> 10  1 10
>
> HTH
>
> On 1/24/07, domenico pestalozzi <statadat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I import a dataframe composed by 2 variables and 14000 cases. Now I need the
>> labels of the cases sorted by the second variable V2, but if I sort the
>> dataframe according to the second variable:
>>
>> mydataframe<- mydataframe[order(mydataframe$V2),]
>>
>> I notice that the labels are always the same (that is, not ordered by V2).
>>
>> How to change them?
>> I tried :
>>
>> labels(mydataframe)<-1:14000
>>
>> but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> domenico
>>
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