问题
In R I can access the data in a column vector of a column matrix by the following:
mat2[,1]
Each column of mat2 has a name. How can I retrieve the data from the first column by using the name attribute instead of [,1]?
For example suppose my first column had the name "saturn". I want something like
mat2[,1] == mat2[saturn]
回答1:
The following should do it:
mat2[,'saturn']
For example:
> x <- matrix(1:21, nrow=7, ncol=3)
> colnames(x) <- paste('name', 1:3)
> x[,'name 1']
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
回答2:
Bonus information (adding to the first answer)
x[,c('name 1','name 2')]
would return two columns just as if you had done
x[,1:2]
And finally, the same operations can be used to subset rows
x[1:2,]
And if rows were named...
x[c('row 1','row 2'),]
Note the position of the comma within the brackets and with respect to the indices.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15297746/r-accessing-a-column-vector-of-a-matrix-by-name