A Type-Stable names() Replacement

A simple wrapper around base::names(). Returns a character vector even if no names attribute is set. Values NA and "" are treated as missing and replaced with the value provided in missing_val.

Usage

names2(x, missing_val = NA_character_)

Arguments

x

(any)
Object.

missing_val

(atomic(1))
Value to set for missing names. Default is NA_character_.

Value

(character(length(x))).

Examples

x = 1:3
names(x)
#> NULL
names2(x)
#> [1] NA NA NA

names(x)[1:2] = letters[1:2]
names(x)
#> [1] "a" "b" NA 
names2(x, missing_val = "")
#> [1] "a" "b" ""