[R] Extract only the values from a row

[Sverre Stausland]

Dear helpers,

how can I extract only the values from a row in a data frame? Using
[X,] doesn't do the trick:

> data.frame(letters[1:10],letters[11:20])->my.data
> my.data[1,]
  letters.1.10. letters.11.20.
1             a              k

I would like to be able to extract only the values "a" and "k" without
getting the row names and column names with them. I'm asking because I
want to assign the character values from a row as the names of the
columns of the data frame.

Best
Sverre