See the check.names= argument to read.table. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Steven Kang <stochastick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R users, > > > Suppose the csv file contains header names such as *"Nike, dunk"*, *"Converse, > All stars"* etc > > When imported to R (with header = T option), the column names are given by: > > *"Nike..dunk"* *"Converse..All.stars"* > > I have tried the following command to convert these column names to the > original names as in the input source. (i.e substituting "*.."* to "*, *") > > chartr("..",", ",colnames(dat)) >> "Nike dunk" "Converse All stars" > > Not getting what Im expecting... > > Greatly appreciate for your help in resolving this matter. > > > > > > > Steven > > [[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. >
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