"Thank you Rui. I didn't know about the check.names = FALSE argument. > Another good reminder to always read help, but I'm not sure I understood > what help to read in this case"
?data.frame , of course, which says: "check.names logical. If TRUE then the names of the variables in the data frame are checked to ensure that they are syntactically valid variable names and are not duplicated. If necessary they are adjusted (by make.names) so that they are. " -- Bert ______________________________________________ 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.