On 28/02/2013 11:08 AM, Jesus Munoz Serrano wrote:
Dear all
I'm having some problems with a data set that has parenthesis within the
variable names. A example of this kind of variable names is the following:
fBodyGyroskewness()Z
The case is that R is having a lot of troubles to identify the variable
(probably it does understand it like a function). I've tried (among other
things) to remove the parenthesis from the name using the following command:
names(dataFrame) <- sub("()","",
names(dataFrame))
but It didn't work. Sorry if it's a silly issue but I would really appreciate
if anybody could help me. Thank you very much.
R shouldn't have trouble with names like that, but a lot of packages
will (e.g. the ones that construct strings and call parse() on them).
If you find functions in base R that object to those names, I think we'd
like to fix them. If the functions are in contributed packages, your
mileage may vary.
Duncan Murdoch
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