[R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names
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.
Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names
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.
Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names
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.
Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names
You may also want to look at the label function (and friends) from the Hmisc package. This gives a way to use short, correct names for the variables, but have a longer, more descriptive label to use in plots. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Cloudy56 Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:42 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names 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. __ 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.
