> * Sam Steingold <f...@tah.bet> [2012-04-04 14:58:15 -0400]: > > 1. the strings I replaced with ZZZZ and YYYY are very long; I wish I > could replace them in the object all, not just in text
i.e., I have a long list with elements with long names. how do I replace all these long names with something shorter? row.names(list) <- ... does not do the trick. >> lapply(all.v,names)[97:103] > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2030` > [1] "VECTOR/188" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2031` > [1] "VECTOR/187" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2032` > [1] "VECTOR/186" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2033` > [1] "VECTOR/185" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2034` > [1] "VECTOR/183" > [2] "VECTOR/184" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2035` > [1] "VECTOR/182" > > $`ZZZZZZZZZZZ/2036` > [1] "VECTOR/181" > > for that I will need 2 lines in the resulting data frame. > how do I do that? done by a judicious use of rep. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) X 11.0.11004000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://iris.org.il http://thereligionofpeace.com http://mideasttruth.com http://ffii.org Those who can laugh at themselves will never cease to be amused. ______________________________________________ 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.
