To Whom It May Concern:
I have noticed that all of the hyphens ("-") are changed to periods (".") when
I try to read.table() and the headers contain "-"
I am using R 2.13 on a RedHat system.
Here is the situation:
I have the following a tab-delimited text file saved as test.txt
File1-a.txt
File1-b.txt
File2-a.txt
File2-b.txt
1
1
2
1
1
2
3
2
1
1
2
3
1
2
3
4
When I use:
>example <- read.table("test.txt", header = TRUE, sep = "\t")
>example
File1.a.txt
File1.b.txt
File2.a.txt
File2.b.txt
1
1
2
1
1
2
3
2
1
1
2
3
1
2
3
4
Notice that all of the "-" are changed to "."
I read the help(read.table) along with a google search, but I can't find why
this is happening.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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