Then using Sarah's suggestion something like?
> dat <- read.table(text="
+ 'Var 1' Var.2
+ 1 6
+ 2 7
+ 3 8
+ 4 9
+ 5 10", header=TRUE, col.names=c("Var_1", "Var.2"))
> dat
Var_1 Var.2
1 1 6
2 2 7
3 3 8
4 4 9
5 5 10
David C
From: John Sorkin [mailto:jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 9:25 AM
To: David L Carlson
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] Blank spaces are replaced by period in read.csv, I want to
replace blacks with an underline
David,
I appreciate you suggestion, but it won't work for me. I need to replace the
space for a period at the time the data are read, not afterward. My variables
names have periods I want to keep, if I use your suggestion I will replace the
period inserted when the data are read, as well as the period that I want to
keep.
Thank you,
JohnÂ
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
(Phone) 410-605-7119
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>>> David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> 06/08/15 10:21 AM >>>
You can use gsub() to change the names:
> dat <- data.frame("Var 1"=rnorm(5, 10), "Var 2"=rnorm(5, 15))
> dat
Var.1 Var.2
1 9.627122 14.15376
2 10.741617 16.92937
3 8.492926 15.23767
4 12.226146 15.19834
5 8.829982 14.46957
> names(dat) <- gsub("\\.", "_", names(dat))
> dat
Var_1 Var_2
1 9.627122 14.15376
2 10.741617 16.92937
3 8.492926 15.23767
4 12.226146 15.19834
5 8.829982 14.46957
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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352
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From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of John Sorkin
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 9:16 AM
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Blank spaces are replaced by period in read.csv, I want to replace
blacks with an underline
I am reading a csv file. The column headers have spaces in them. The spaces are
replaced by a period. I want to replace the space by another character (e.g.
the underline) rather than the period. Can someone tell me how to accomplish
this?Thank you,
John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
(Phone) 410-605-7119410-605-7119
(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
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