Try this:

names(x) <- rep("A", length(x))


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Francois Rousseu <
francoisrousseu@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello R users
>
> I was trying to find a less annoying way of naming vectors than:
>
> x<-1:10
> names(x)[1:length(x)]<-"A"
>
> So I tried:
>
> x<-1:10
> names(x)<-"A"     #but this gave only the first element named (as described
> in the help files)
>
> and
>
> x<-1:10
> names(x)[]<-"A"   #but this gave all elements named NA
>
> The curious thing with this last option is that if the same line is ran a
> second time, now the vector gets the name "A" for all elements, which is
> what is desired
>
> names(x)[]<-"A"
>
> I'm guessing the first time the names attribute is created and the second
> time values are given to this attribute. But shouldn't we expect the
> elements to be all named on the first try with the given value?
>
> Cheers
> Francois
>
>
>
>
>
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