Hi all,
Is there any easy way to tell if a string is a syntactically valid name?
e.g.
is.syntactic("X123")
# TRUE
is.syntactic("[[")
# FALSE
One implementation would be:
is.syntactic <- function(x) x == make.names(x)
but I wonder if there's a more elegant way.
Thanks!
Hadley
--
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/
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