[R] Matrix - remove [,1] from top row

Richard M. Heiberger rmh @end|ng |rom temp|e@edu
Tue Jul 2 23:17:48 CEST 2019


give your a matrix an empty column name.

> tmp <- matrix(1:4, 4, 1, dimnames=list(letters[1:4], NULL))
> tmp
  [,1]
a    1
b    2
c    3
d    4
> dimnames(tmp)[[1]]
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d"
> dimnames(tmp)[[2]]
NULL
> dimnames(tmp)[[2]] <- ""
> tmp

a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> That is not a row, what you seem to have is an object of class
> "matrix" and when it's printed it prints the column names or [,1]
> [,2] etc if there aren't any colnames. So your matrix has just one
> column and 4 rows with rownames 'date', 'Peeps', 'days', 'worn'.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
>
>
>
> Citando Nicola Cecchino <ncecchino using gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am simply trying to remove the [,1] row from a matrix.  I tried to
> > search Google to see if I could find how that is removed, but could
> > not find a way to do it.
> >
> > So I have the following:
> >
> >                 [,1]
> > date          2019-7-01
> > Peeps       5
> > days         7
> > worn          9
> >
> > this is what I want:
> >
> > date          2019-7-01
> > Peeps       5
> > days         7
> > worn          9
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Nic
> >
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