Dear AJSS, Perhaps ?noquote might be useful for you. Here is an example: > x=c('V1','V2','V3','V4') > x [1] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" > noquote(x) [1] V1 V2 V3 V4
HTH, Jorge On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Amarjit Singh Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >  > Dear R-helpers, > hello > I am seeking your help in somehow getting names of variables without > quotes (" "). > Let us say, we have a table with 3 variables V1, V2 and V3. After the > table is read, I get names of the variables (thro' the following code) as > under quotes (like "V1" rather than the original representation V1) >  >  x=read.table("sample.txt",header=T,sep="\t") > > x >    V1   V2   V3 > 1 15    10     4 > 2   6      4      7 > 3 10     5      2 > 4   8     6      6 > > nm=names(x) > > nm > [1] "V1" "V2" "V3" >  > In fact I need the variables in the original representation (i.e., as they > appear in the input data file) so as to use them repeatedly (through loop > statement) in regression analysis. Kindly help. > Regards > ajss > > > > > d Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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