[R] Extract values from a named array

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Apr 7 18:50:21 CEST 2008



Gang Chen wrote:
> Sorry for this dumb question. Suppose I have a named array ww defined as
> 
> ww <- 1:5
> names(ww) <- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e")
> 
> How can I extract the whole array of numbers without the names?
> ww[1:5] does not work while ww[[1]] can only extract one number at a
> time.


Use as.vector to strip these attributes:

as.vector(ww)
> Thanks,
> Gang
> 
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