Thank you very much, Henrique! The comment function is exactly what I was looking for.
Regarding 1) why example was bad: The column names don't follow an easy pattern but are more like "s8v2", "s12v3", "s6v1" etc. Kind regards, Werner --- Henrique Dallazuanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Try this: > > 1) > mydf[1,paste("col", 4:8, sep="")] > > 2) You can use comment function: > > comment(mydf) <- c("Column number1", "Column > number2") > > or > > comment(mydf$col1) <- "Column number1 etc" > > then > > comment(mydf) and comment(mydf$col1) to see the > labels > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.