Try this: read.table(...., check.names = FALSE)
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Cloudy56 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any way to maintain spaces, slashes, and parentheses in variable > names when reading these into R? > > Of course, read.table converts these to periods. However, I know that it's > not strictly illegal to have these characters in variable names as I am > able > to add them using the "variable editor" portion of the "data editor." > > I need to batch produce dozens of histograms for reporting purposes and my > data is loaded with special characters e.g. "Historic Trend (mm/yr)" > Adding "Historic.Trend..mm.yr." to my plots is not acceptable for reporting > purposes. Do I really need to manually label all of my plots each time I > produce them in R or manually change the variable names in the Data Editor? > > Any help that anyone may be able to provide to allow me to read data > without > "corrupting" my variable labels would be appreciated. (Forgive me if this > is a dumb question, first day in R.) > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Maintain-Spaces-and-Parentheses-in-Variable-Names-tp21377255p21377255.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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