This is in the header, right? This has come up a couple of times recently. There's a new option to readtable to allow nonstandard column names. See:
https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl/pull/896 It's only in the devel version of DataFrames. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Joaquim Masset Lacombe Dias Garcia < joaquimdgar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have noticed that DataFrames´ readtable cannot read by default special > characters such ac $ % - & and it replaces everything by underscore. > > Is there any way to make it read those characters just like the R function > fread does? >