It does work correctly: > names(tdf) [1] "" ""
The thing you have overlooked is that data frames are required to have non-empty (not 'zero-length': yours has length 2) names, and the print method has created some (as data.frame will if you give unnamed arguments). Please be careful to distinguish between an object and its printed representation. On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, vitosm...@rambler.ru wrote: > Full_Name: Spinu Vitalie > Version: 2.9.0 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (130.115.113.15) > > > In assignment of "zero length" names to data.frame: > >> tdf <- data.frame(rbind(c(1, 2), c(1, 2))) >> names(tdf) <- c("", "") >> tdf > structure(c("1", "1"), class = "AsIs") structure(c("2", "2"), class = "AsIs") > 1 1 > 2 > 2 1 > 2 > > For vectors it works nicely: > >> tv <- c(1, 2) >> names(tv) <- c("", "") >> tv > > 1 2 > > > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics uti > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel