I sifted some more and read about a workaround for the problem. I could
simply rename the columns so that there were no more spaces
names(alltime) <-gsub(" ",".", names(alltime))
> names(alltime)
[1] "ID" "LVL7" "Ref.Pv.No" "Ref.Pv.Name" "DOS"
"Pt.Last.Name" "Pt.First.Name" "MRN" "CPT"
"CPT.Desc" "DxCd1" "DxCd2" "DxCd3" "DxCd4"
[15] "DOE"
Farrel Buchinsky
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 14:32, Farrel Buchinsky <fjb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I read a table from Microsoft Access using RODBC. Some of the variables had
> a name with a space in it.
> R has no problem with it but I do.
> I cannot find out how to specify the space
>
> names(alltime)
> [1] "ID" "LVL7" "Ref Pv No" "Ref Pv Name" "DOS"
> "Pt Last Name" "Pt First Name" "MRN" "CPT"
> "CPT Desc" "DxCd1" "DxCd2" "DxCd3" "DxCd4"
>
> [15] "DOE"
>
> But what do I do if I want to do something such as this
> > alltime[grep("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE",alltime$CPT Desc,]
> Error: unexpected symbol in "alltime[grep("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE",alltime$CPT
> Desc"
>
>
> Farrel Buchinsky
>
>
> Sent from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
>
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