On Jul 6, 2011, at 01:40 , Hadley Wickham wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:31 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> regexp approach is kinda ugly
>> http://www.r-bloggers.com/testing-for-valid-variable-names/
>
> Hmm, I think that suggests a couple of small bug in make.names:
>
>> make.names("...")
> [1] "..."
>> make.names("..1")
> [1] "..1"
>
What's wrong with that? They are names alright, just with special meanings.
> x <- quote(...)
> mode(x)
[1] "name"
> and
>
>> x <- paste(rep("x", 1e6), collapse = "")
>> x == make.names(x)
> [1] TRUE
>
>
Mildly insane, but technically OK, no?
> Hadley
>
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