[Gretl-devel] Re: rows/cols names are lost

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 6:42 AM Marcin Błażejowski <marcin(a)wrzosy.nsb.pl&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > after some basic matrix modifications cols & rows name are gone? Is that > expected: > > <script> > m = mnormal(3,3) > strings rownames = defarray("r1", "r2", "r3") > strings colnames = defarray("c1", "c2", "c3") > rnameset(m, rownames) > cnameset(m, colnames) > > print m > print m' > print m[1:end-1, 1:end-1] > </script> It's expected. We assume if you're slicing in both dimensions of a matrix you don't care (much) about preserving names. In some cases you may care, but there's a trade-off: I think in most cases we'd be wasting CPU cycles subsetting and reattaching arrays of names. Now that you can use a selection vector to slice an array it's easy enough to preserve row or column naming if that's what you want.