#rstats My take: rownames(df) was the original mechanism for labeling obs. All base R knew this, so plot(lm(y~x, data=df)) did the right thing (outliers, influence plot) for obs. deserving to be noticed. tidyverse changed that, perhaps rightly so, but the auto-labeling aspect was largely lost.
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters.so anyone use the rownames attribute often in #rstats? curious if there are any advantages or conveniences that this attribute brings?