Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I get sometimes names like X..123 when I import data through read.delim, read.table, ...
When it's necessary I avoid the X..123 by adding read.delim(xxx, check.names=F) HTH Bart -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/applying-strsplit-to-a-whole-column-tp2313915p2314619.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.