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How to access the atomic vector attributes?

I have set the attributes for a variable using the attr function as below : 

x <- 1 :20
attr(x,'name') <- c("RED","BLUE")
attributes(x)

$name
[1] "RED"  "BLUE"

Now that I have set the attributes; if I access it using '$' it says "Error : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors". I also tried x['name'] which shows NA

How do I access this atomic vector attributes?

Solution

  • If I understand your question, 

     attr(x, 'name')
#[1] "RED"  "BLUE"

    Or

     attributes(x)$name
#[1] "RED"  "BLUE"