column name prefix 'x' after data import via read.delim
Hello, "e-letter", check ?read.delim and look for the argument check.names and from there you'll should end up reading ?make.names Hth -- Gerrit
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, e-letter wrote:
Readers, The function 'read.delim' was used to import data into R: columnnamea columnnameb columnnamec 1 2 3 2 3 4 3 4 5 After import, the column names were: X.columnnamea columnnameb columnnamec Why did this occur? -- r2151
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