As long as the names are unique, there is not a problem to shorten them.
El mié, 17-11-2010 a las 01:02 +0100, José Fernando Zea Castro escribió: > Hello. > > First, I'm thankful about your wonderful project. > > However, I have serious worries about the reliability of R. I found > the next bug which I consider important because in my job everytime We > work with datanames like next. Please see below: > > > b=data.frame(matrix(1:9,ncol=3)) > names(b)=c("q99","r88","s77") > > >b > q99 r88 s77 > 1 1 4 7 > 2 2 5 8 > 3 3 6 9 > > b$q9 > [1] 1 2 3 > > > Please note that the variable q9 does not exist in the dataframe, but > you can see that R > show q9 (as q99). > > Thank in advanced > > > Cordially > José Fernando Zea Castro > Statistician Universidad Nacional Colombiana > > ______________________________________________ > 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.