Re: [Gretl-devel] extracting row names of a matrix
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. (With some room for discussion on what to do in case of a vector.)
cheers,
sven