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

2009-01-09 Thread Greg Snow
Healthcare 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 P

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

2009-01-09 Thread Cloudy56
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

2009-01-09 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: read.table(, check.names = FALSE) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Cloudy56 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

[R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

2009-01-09 Thread Cloudy56
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 edito