The help text for row+colnames {base} states:
"For a data frame, rownames and colnames eventually call row.names
and names respectively, but the latter are preferred."
Why are they "preferred"?
Why is it names(), not col.names()?
I have only ever used names() for vectors - I'm surprised it works on
data.frames... IMO this is not great for code readability, thus thinking to
require rownames(), colnames() for all 2D objects, names() for vectors and
lists. Any problems with this approach?
Thanks for some insight!
Boris
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