> I wouldn't expect so. The basic structure might be handled using a regexp of > sorts, but even that is tricky because of the "dot not followed by number" > rule, and then there's the stop list of reserved words, which would make your > code clumsy whatever you do. > > How on Earth would you expect anything to be significantly more elegant than > your > > function(x) x == make.names(x) > > anyway??! (OK, if there was a wrapper for the C level isValidName() > function...)
Good point. Thanks! Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel