Try sub("[(]","", names(dataFrams)
and sub("[)]","", names(dataFrams) Frans 2013/2/28 Jesus Munoz Serrano <jesusmunozserr...@gmail.com> > > 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. > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.