[Rd] Underlying representation for rownames

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think ?.row_names_info is what you are looking for (although data frames 
have row.names and matrices have rownames, pace the subject line).

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, hadley wickham wrote:

> Is it possible to get at the underlying representation of row names -
> ie. what you see in the output from dput:
>
>> df <- data.frame(1:4)
>> dput(df)
> structure(list(X1.4 = 1:4), .Names = "X1.4", row.names = c(NA,
> -4L), class = "data.frame")
>
> I would like to be able to tell if a data frame has the default row
> names, or if they have been changed by the user.  I need this for
> rggobi because in GGobi row names should be unique across all data
> frames, unless explicitly set by the user.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hadley
>
>
>

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