> x = matrix(data=1:6, nrow=2, nc=3)
> x
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 3 5
[2,] 2 4 6
> x = matrix(data=1:6, nrow=2, nc=3, byrow=TRUE)
> x
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 2 3
[2,] 4 5 6
> x = matrix(data=1:6, nrow=2, nc=3, byrow=TRUE, dimnames=list(list('a','b'),list('A','B','C')))
> x
A B C
a 1 2 3
b 4 5 6
> x['a',]
A B C
1 2 3