Farrel Buchinsky-3 wrote: > > I read a table from Microsoft Access using RODBC. Some of the variables > had > a name with a space in it. > R has no problem with it but I do. > I cannot find out how to specify the space > > names(alltime) > [1] "ID" "LVL7" "Ref Pv No" "Ref Pv Name" "DOS" > "Pt Last Name" "Pt First Name" "MRN" "CPT" > "CPT > Desc" "DxCd1" "DxCd2" "DxCd3" "DxCd4" > [15] "DOE" > > But what do I do if I want to do something such as this >> alltime[grep("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE",alltime$CPT Desc,] > Error: unexpected symbol in "alltime[grep("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE",alltime$CPT > Desc" > > > Farrel Buchinsky > >
The following might work: alltime[grep("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE",alltime[[ "CPT Desc ]] ] -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/space-in-column-name-tp24559626p24559726.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.