[R] add info

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

you could use attributes, e.g.,

dat <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = letters[1:3])
attr(dat, "name") <- "my data.frame"
attr(dat, "author") <- "John Smith"
attr(dat, "date") <- "2007-05-18"

##################

dat
attributes(dat)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "XinMeng" <xmeng at capitalbio.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:05 AM
Subject: [R] add info


> hi all:
> If there's a dataframe:
>
> x y
> 1 a
> 2 b
> 3 c
>
> The info of the data such as :
>
> name
> date
> author
>
> The result I want is:
>
> name
> date
> author
> x y
> 1 a
> 2 b
> 3 c
>
> In other words,I wanna add the info above the dataframe.
>
> How can I do it ?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> My best
>
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