NULL or a character vector giving the row names for the data frame. Missing values are not allowed.
optional
logical. If TRUE, setting row names and converting column names (to syntactic names: see make.names) is optional. Note that all of R's base package as.data.frame() methods use optional only for column names treatment, basically with the meaning of data.frame(*, check.names = !optional). See also the make.names argument of the matrix method.
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additional arguments to be passed to or from methods.