Re: [Gretl-devel] extracting row names of a matrix

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 03.02.2018 um 03:33 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: >> >>>> Is there a less roundabout way to extract row names >>>> of a matrix >>> >>> OK, alright! By popular demand, there's now a rowname() function in git. >> >> Thanks! >> >> I've just reviewed the situation with colnames/colname/rownames, however, >> and I must say I find it not really obvious that colname --and now also >> rowname-- *gets* the names, while colnames/rownames *puts* names. The >> labeling seems confusing to me. >> >> Could we perhaps rename the new rowname to something like rnameget (or >> similar), and perhaps introduce a similar alias like cnameget for colname? >> >> And a further possible extension: Similar to strsplit(), the functions >> colname and rowname (or their new aliases) might also return an array of >> strings of *all* names in the case that the second index argument is >> omitted. > > Might as well strike while the iron is hot: that's now in git. Why not go all the way, then? How about {c|r}name{get|set}?