### Name: names
### Title: The Names of an Object
### Aliases: names names.default names<- names<-.default
### Keywords: attribute

### ** Examples

# print the names attribute of the islands data set
names(islands)

# remove the names attribute
names(islands) <- NULL
islands
rm(islands) # remove the copy made

z <- list(a=1, b="c", c=1:3)
names(z)
# change just the name of the third element.
names(z)[3] <- "c2"
z

z <- 1:3
names(z)
## assign just one name
names(z)[2] <- "b"
z