On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> 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@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}?

OK, good idea, nice and logical. That's now in git.

Allin
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