[R] the first name of the first column

[MacQueen, Don]

I think you are confusing row names with the first column. The first column in mtcars is not alphanumeric:

> class(mtcars)
[1] "data.frame"
> class(mtcars[,1])
[1] "numeric"

> rownames(mtcars)
 [1] "Mazda RX4"           "Mazda RX4 Wag"       "Datsun 710"          "Hornet 4 Drive"      "Hornet Sportabout"   "Valiant"            (etc)

Perhaps you should make a copy of my_data that includes only the numeric columns?

-Don
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On 5/10/18, 2:36 PM, "R-help on behalf of greg holly" <r-help-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of mak.hholly using gmail.com> wrote:

    Dear all;
    
    I need to run heatmap. Because my first column in my data is alphanumeric,
    I can not run as.matrix(scale(my_data)). So I need to make my data readable
    as in data(mtcars). In *mtcars *data the first column is alphanumeric and
    has no  name.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Greg
    
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