# R: Position of Row Names

whichNames {car} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package car version 3.0-2 Index]