Andrew is right - it's a typo. More broadly, there's no restriction of that sort on the contents of your data frame - reserved words can't be used for object names. The R Language Definition is the best resource for identifying those words.
It would help if you provided the package for read_csv, since not everyone uses tidyverse by default, although it isn't necessary for this question. Sarah On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 9:45 AM Andrew Simmons <akwsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems like the headers are misnamed, that should be a comma between > sampdate and param, not a period > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 09:35 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > A short data file: > > site_nbr,sampdate.param,quant,unit > > 31731,2005-07-12,temp,19.7,oC > > 31731,2007-03-28,temp,9,oC > > 31731,2007-06-27,temp,18.3,oC > > 31731,2007-09-26,temp,15.8,oC > > 31731,2008-01-17,temp,5.4,oC > > 31731,2008-03-27,temp,7.4,oC > > 31731,2010-04-05,temp,8.1,oC > > 31731,2010-07-26,temp,20.5,oC > > 31731,2010-10-18,temp,12.5,oC > > 31731,2011-01-10,temp,5.4,oC > > > > The import function: > > sal_temp <- read_csv("../data/geochem/sal-temp.csv", col_names = TRUE, > > col_types = list ( > > site_nbr = col_character(), > > sampdate = col_date(), > > param = col_character(), > > quant = col_double(), > > unit = col_character() > > )) > > > > The response from R: > > source('../scripts/test.r') > > Warning message: > > The following named parsers don't match the column names: sampdate, param > > > > I searched the web to see if 'temp' is causing the problem and didn't find > > an answer; my search term might have been flawed. > > > > If that string is a problem please suggest an alternative. > > > > TIA, > > > > Rich > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Sarah Goslee (she/her) http://www.numberwright.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.