| which.names {car} | R Documentation | 
These functions return the indices of row names in a data frame
or a vector of names. whichNames is just an alias for which.names.
which.names(names, object) whichNames(...)
names | 
 a name or character vector of names.  | 
object | 
 a data frame or character vector of (row) names.  | 
... | 
 arguments to be passed to   | 
Returns the index or indices of names within object.
John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca
Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.
which.names(c('minister', 'conductor'), Duncan)
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