[R] Oddity with names

[Andrew Robinson]

Hi all,

I'm using R 1.5.1 on Windows 2000.  The following snippet of code doesn't 
seem to do anything - no error is reported, and there is no name change.

names(myFrame[,c(1:3)]) <- c("name1", "name2", "name3")

This code however works nicely:

names(myFrame)[c(1:3)] <- c("name1", "name2", "name3")

Can anyone suggest why the first doesn't work?  Ought an error be reported?

Thanks,

Andrew

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