[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

Try this: read.table(, check.names = FALSE) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, 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

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

Thank you very much. That certainly worked. Somehow I did not see that when reading the help file, nor could I find it via Google search so I appreciate your help! -- JC Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try this: read.table(, check.names = FALSE) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM,

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

greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Cloudy56 Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:42 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names