On 08 Jun 2015, at 17:03 , Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd import them with check.names=FALSE, then modify them explicitly:
>
>
>> mynames <- c("x y", "x y", "x y", "x y")
>> mynames
> [1] "x y" "x y" "x y" "x y"
>> mynames <- sub(" ", ".", mynames)
>> mynames
> [1] "x.y" "x.y" "x.y" "x.y"
>> mynames <- paste(mynames, seq_along(mynames), sep="_")
>> mynames
> [1] "x.y_1" "x.y_2" "x.y_3" "x.y_4"
Didn't he want x_y.1, not x.y_1? Obviously, just switch "." and "_" for that.
A potential improvement (in case not all columns are "x y") is to replace the
last bit with make.unique(mynames).
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