[R] Solved: was names(dist(mat)) gives NULL in R 2.1.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Elio Mineo wrote:

> Thanks to Andy Liaw to suggest me the right solution (at least for me):
>
> attributes(dist(mat))$Labels
>
> or
>
> attr(dist(mat),"Labels")

R 2.2.0 will allow labels(dist_object), which seem natural (and unlike 
names promises nothing about the returned object).

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