Don't think you can have numerics as the first characters in a variable name.
R ninjas can confirm, but I think you will be able to have numerics after an initial alpha character, e.g. Fe56 is ok, but 56Fe is not ok. Also, check out "gsub". This is a really powerful string editing tool. Hope this helps. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > > project.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Smith > > Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 4:57 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] Remove all spaces from a string so it can > be used by > > assign() > > > > > > 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. > > > > How can I change the string so that it just becomes > 56Fe1 and can be > > used as a variable name. > > > > > > Thank You > > > > Kurt > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > [[elided Hotmail spam]] > > > > > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
