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more flexible dimnames assignment: one vector, and rownames and colnames parameters

Submitted by tbates on
We quite often read and type things like


mxObject(…, dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b","c")))
# and
mxExpectationNormal(dimnames = list(c("a", "b","c"), c("a", "b","c")))

Add rownames and colnames parameters to allow:

mxObject(..., colnames = c("a", "b", 'c'))

in place of the harder to read

mxObject(…, dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b")))

Would be handy also to interpret a single vector input to dimnames as a list with both entries the same, i.e.:


mxObject(..., dimnames = c('a','b', 'c') )
# would function like:
mxObject(..., dimnames = list(c("a", "b", 'c'), c("a", "b", 'c')))

Best, t

Submitted by mhunter on Mon, 08/18/2014 - 16:34

I am not opposed to this. Have at it, Tim! The way to do it would be to copy the methods for dimnames used by the MxObject in question. For example, Line 276 of trunk/R/MxMatrix.R gives the setMethod("dimnames", ...) for MxMatrix objects. Create setMethod's and setReplaceMethod's for rownames and colnames that access and set the dimnames of the object. The dimnames are the "real" thing that the object has; rownames and colnames will then be wrappers for dimnames.
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