setNames
Attach a names attribute to an object

### Description

Returns the input object with a new names attributes.

### Usage

    setNames(object = nm, nm)

### Arguments

object | any object that accepts a names attribute; a vector of any type.
nm | a vector of character strings or an object that can be coerced to a vector of character strings. The length must be less than or equal to the length of object. If you specify NULL, the function deletes the names attribute of object.

### Details

setNames(x, nm) performs the same action as names(x) <- nm except that setNames returns the modification of x but does not modify x.
Value
returns an object with the newly assigned names attribute.
See Also
names
Examples

    setNames(1:3, c("one", "two", "three"))
    setNames(nm = 1:5)

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