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Message-ID: <20060223232441.GN7550@iarc.uaf.edu>
Date: 2006-02-23T23:24:42Z
From: Christopher Swingley
Subject: Working with lists with numerical names
In-Reply-To: <43FE43F4.9070302@pdf.com>

Sundar,

* Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com> [2006-Feb-23 14:23 AKST]:
> Hi, Chris,
> 
> > x <- data.frame(1:5, 6:10)
> > names(x) <- c("R", "2B")
> > x
>   R 2B
> 1 1  6
> 2 2  7
> 3 3  8
> 4 4  9
> 5 5 10
> > x$"2B"

Thanks.  I swear I tried just about every other combination of possible
escape character.  But I didn't try:

    frame$"vector"

or

    `vector`

My bad.

I *knew* it was something simple!

Cheers,

Chris
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Christopher S. Swingley          email: cswingle at iarc.uaf.edu
Intl. Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks   www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/