How about:
> DF <- data.frame(x11=1)
> c("x1", "x11") %in% names(DF)
[1] FALSE TRUE
hope this helps. spencer graves
Booker, Andrew J wrote:
This is probably a know problem (problem for me anyway) in R but I
don't quite know what to search for in help archives. When I name a
column "x11" in a data frame R thinks a column named "x1" exists. In
my application I am trying to test for the existence of a column, then
add it if it's not there. Here is a simple example:
temd <- data.frame(x11=c(0:10))
is.null(temd[["x1"]])
[1] FALSE
temd[["x1"]]
[1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
temd$x1
[1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
temd[,"x1"]
Error in "[.data.frame"(temd, , "x1") : undefined columns selected
This is in R 2.0.0.
Anyone know how to run (safely) through a list of names like "x1"-"x100" and check for
data frame columns with the names?
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