car (version 2.1-4)

which.names: Position of Row Names

Description

These functions return the indices of row names in a data frame or a vector of names. whichNames is just an alias for which.names.

Usage

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

Arguments

names

a name or character vector of names.

object

a data frame or character vector of (row) names.

arguments to be passed to which.names.

Value

Returns the index or indices of names within object.

References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.

Examples

Run this code
which.names(c('minister', 'conductor'), Duncan)
## [1]  6 16

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