Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Cloudy56
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:42 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: 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, Cloudy56 <clough.jonathan at 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
> 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.)
> >> --
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> >>
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> >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Henrique Dallazuanna
> > Curitiba-Paran?-Brasil
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