regexp approach is kinda ugly http://www.r-bloggers.com/testing-for-valid-variable-names/
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > > I wouldn't expect so. The basic structure might be handled using a regexp > of sorts, but even that is tricky because of the "dot not followed by > number" rule, and then there's the stop list of reserved words, which would > make your code clumsy whatever you do. > > > > How on Earth would you expect anything to be significantly more elegant > than your > > > > function(x) x == make.names(x) > > > > anyway??! (OK, if there was a wrapper for the C level isValidName() > function...) > > Good point. Thanks! > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
