You should be doing

colnames(tester) <-
c("uno","dos","tres","cuatro","cinco","seis","siete","ocho")

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Germán Bonilla <germa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I built a matrix binding vectors with rbind, and have something like this:
>
>        [,1]     [,2]    [,3]     [,4]     [,5]     [,6]      [,7]     [,8]
> CLS 3.877328 4.087636 4.72089 4.038361 3.402942 2.786285  2.671222 3.276419
> ORD      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN 5.770780 5.901113 11.888054 7.934823
> FAM      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN 3.699455  4.551196 2.885390
> GEN      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN 3.967411  4.390296 2.885390
> SPP      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN      NaN       NaN 2.885390
>
> Then I tried to assign names to each column with names(), but end up with
> the following:
>
> > names(tester) <-
> c("uno","dos","tres","cuatro","cinco","seis","siete","ocho")
>
>        [,1]     [,2]    [,3]     [,4]     [,5]     [,6]      [,7]     [,8]
> CLS 3.877328 4.087636 4.72089 4.038361 3.402942 2.786285  2.671222 3.276419
> ORD      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN 5.770780 5.901113 11.888054 7.934823
> FAM      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN 3.699455  4.551196 2.885390
> GEN      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN 3.967411  4.390296 2.885390
> SPP      NaN      NaN     NaN      NaN      NaN      NaN       NaN 2.885390
> attr(,"names")
>  [1] "uno"    "dos"    "tres"   "cuatro" "cinco"  "seis"   "siete"  "ocho"
>  [9] NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
> [17] NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
> [25] NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
> [33] NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
>
> I can use colnames(tester), but then I cannot identify the colnames on the
> points when I plot them.
>
> How can I set the names(tester) for the whole matrix?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Germán,
> UNAM
>
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