Greetings! I'm have a hard time working with some data I imported from a baseball database. Several of the database columns have numbers in them (2B, 3B), and when I try to use these vectors from the data frame, I get syntax errors, probably because it's interpreting the name as a number:
> show(batting2005) playerID yearID stint teamID lgID G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB 1 robleos01 2005 1 LAN NL 110 364 44 99 18 1 5 34 0 8 31 2 iguchta01 2005 1 CHA AL 135 511 74 142 25 6 15 71 15 5 47 3 molinya01 2005 1 SLN NL 114 385 36 97 15 1 8 49 2 3 23 . . . > print(batting2005$HR) [1] 5 15 8 3 14 3 6 21 8 7 9 27 12 5 14 8 28 9 22 15 5 22 9 10 1 . . . > print(batting2005$2B) Error: syntax error in "print(batting2005$2" > SLG<-(H + 2B + 3B * 2 + HR * 3) / AB; Error: syntax error in "SLG<-(H + 2B" # batting2005 is attached > SLG<-(H + "2B" + "3B" * 2 + HR * 3) / AB; Error in H + "2B" : non-numeric argument to binary operator Is there a way to "escape" the '2B' somehow or encapsulate it so that R knows I'm talking about that particular numeric vector? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intl. Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html