Hi, With this data.frame: > class(rwl) [1] "data.frame" >rwl 0028002F 0028013F 0028032F 1833 3.39 NA NA 1834 3.09 NA NA 1835 3.05 NA NA 1836 3.31 NA NA 1837 2.26 NA NA > colnames(rwl) [1] "0028002F" "0028013F" "0028032F" Ok.... > colnames(rwl[,1]) NULL why?? I expect: "0028002F" Thanks in advance, Alfredo