> 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/

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