[R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

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

Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

, Cloudy56 clough.jonat...@gmail.com 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