On 08/06/2015 10:23 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote: > Easiest? Use sub() to replace the periods after the fact. > > You can also use the check.names or the col.names arguments to > read.table() to customize your import.
Yes, check.names is the right idea. Use check.names = FALSE, then use sub() or gsub() to replace the spaces with underscores. Duncan Murdoch > Sarah > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:15 AM, John Sorkin > <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: >> I am reading a csv file. The column headers have spaces in them. The spaces >> are replaced by a period. I want to replace the space by another character >> (e.g. the underline) rather than the period. Can someone tell me how to >> accomplish this?Thank you, >> John >> >> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >> Professor of Medicine >> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics >> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and >> Geriatric Medicine >> Baltimore VA Medical Center >> 10 North Greene Street >> GRECC (BT/18/GR) >> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >> (Phone) 410-605-7119 >> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >> >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
