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which.names

Position of Row Names

Description

These functions return the indices of the supplied row names of a data frame or names of another object, such as a vector or list. whichNames is just an alias for which.names.

Usage

whichNames(names, object, ...)

which.names(names, object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
whichNames(names, object, ...)

## Default S3 method:
whichNames(names, object, ...)

Arguments

`names`	a name or character vector of names.
`object`	a data frame or an object with a names attribute.
`...`	not used.

Value

Returns the index or indices of names in row names of the data frame or names of an object of another class.

Author(s)

John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca

References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.

Examples

whichNames(c('minister', 'conductor'), Duncan)

car

Companion to Applied Regression

v3.0-10

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

John Fox [aut, cre], Sanford Weisberg [aut], Brad Price [aut], Daniel Adler [ctb], Douglas Bates [ctb], Gabriel Baud-Bovy [ctb], Ben Bolker [ctb], Steve Ellison [ctb], David Firth [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Gregor Gorjanc [ctb], Spencer Graves [ctb], Richard Heiberger [ctb], Pavel Krivitsky [ctb], Rafael Laboissiere [ctb], Martin Maechler [ctb], Georges Monette [ctb], Duncan Murdoch [ctb], Henric Nilsson [ctb], Derek Ogle [ctb], Brian Ripley [ctb], William Venables [ctb], Steve Walker [ctb], David Winsemius [ctb], Achim Zeileis [ctb], R-Core [ctb]

Initial release

2020-09-23