On 07/03/2009 12:56 PM, Kurt Smith wrote:
Hi I have a string "56 Fe [1]" that I would like to use as a variable name by using "assign" however I think the spaces and brackets might be causing R some trouble.
Not really; R> assign( "56 Fe [1]", 10 ) R> `56 Fe [1]` [1] 10
How can I change the string so that it just becomes 56Fe1 and can be used as a variable name.
56Fe1 is not good enough to be assigned without quotes R> 56Fe1 <- 10 Error: unexpected symbol in "56Fe1" You might be interested in make.names R> make.names( "56 Fe [1]" ) [1] "X56.Fe..1." Otherwise, to answer your question, you can : R> gsub( "[^[:alnum:]]", "", "56 Fe [1]" ) [1] "56Fe1"
Thank You Kurt
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