names2 {mlr3misc} | R Documentation

## A Type-Stable names() Replacement

### Description

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)
    names2(x)

    names(x)[1:2] = letters[1:2]
    names(x)
    names2(x, missing_val = "")

[Package mlr3misc version 0.8.0 Index]