| attr {base} | R Documentation |
Get or set specific attributes of an object.
attr(x, which) attr(x, which) <- value
x |
an object whose attributes are to be accessed. |
which |
a non-empty character string specifying which attribute is to be accessed. |
value |
an object, the new value of the attribute, or NULL
to remove the attribute. |
These functions provide access to a single attribute of an object. The replacement form causes the named attribute to take the value specified (or create a new attribute with the value given).
The extraction function first looks for an exact match to which
amongst the attributes of x, then a unique partial match. The
replacement function only uses exact matches.
Note that some attributes (namely class,
comment, dim, dimnames,
names, (from R 2.4.0) row.names and
tsp) are treated specially and have restrictions on
the values which can be set.
The extractor allows (and does not match) empty and missing values of
which: the replacement function does not.
For the extractor, the value of the attribute matched, or NULL
if no exact match is found and no or more than one partial match is found.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
# create a 2 by 5 matrix x <- 1:10 attr(x,"dim") <- c(2, 5)