Re: [R] question regarding headers with space in the names

Hi Jack, You need to quote non-syntactic names. A$`A 1` A$'A 1' A$"A 1" should all work, with the first form being the recommended one. Best, Ista On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jack Luo wrote: > Hi, > > After I read an xlsx file into the work space: > A <- read.xlsx("B.xls", header = T, ch

[R] question regarding headers with space in the names

Hi, After I read an xlsx file into the work space: A <- read.xlsx("B.xls", header = T, check.names = F) There are several headers with the names like: colnames(A) [1:4] # [1] "A 1""B" [3] "C 2" "D" I can get the content of column 2 and column 4 eas