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

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.