[R] read.xls -> rotate data.frame

[Philipp Pagel]

> I am not 100% sure I understood what you intend to do but I think what
> you are saying is that you would like to address certain rows by name
> rather than by index. Is that correct?
> 
> If so you could solve it like this:
> 
> # assign the desired row names
> rownames(frame) = frame[,1]
> # remove the old name column
> frame <- frame[,2:ncol(frame)]

And adding to my own posting:

removing the column can be done more elegantly:

frame <- frame[,-1]

And I forgot to mention that now you can say things like

frame['x2',]w

The frame$y2 notation still only works for columns, of course.
Maybe, if you tell us some more about your actual analysis, 
more help can be provided.

cu
	Philipp

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Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
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85354 Freising, Germany
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