Thank you very much. That certainly worked. Somehow I did not see that when reading the help file, nor could I find it via Google search so I appreciate your help! -- JC
Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > > Try this: > > read.table(...., check.names = FALSE) > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Cloudy56 <clough.jonat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Is there any way to maintain spaces, slashes, and parentheses in variable >> names when reading these into R? >> >> Of course, read.table converts these to periods. However, I know that >> it's >> not strictly illegal to have these characters in variable names as I am >> able >> to add them using the "variable editor" portion of the "data editor." >> >> I need to batch produce dozens of histograms for reporting purposes and >> my >> data is loaded with special characters e.g. "Historic Trend (mm/yr)" >> Adding "Historic.Trend..mm.yr." to my plots is not acceptable for >> reporting >> purposes. Do I really need to manually label all of my plots each time I >> produce them in R or manually change the variable names in the Data >> Editor? >> >> Any help that anyone may be able to provide to allow me to read data >> without >> "corrupting" my variable labels would be appreciated. (Forgive me if >> this >> is a dumb question, first day in R.) >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Maintain-Spaces-and-Parentheses-in-Variable-Names-tp21377255p21377255.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. >> > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Maintain-Spaces-and-Parentheses-in-Variable-Names-tp21377255p21377996.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.
