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.)