[R] space in column name

[jim holtman]

use 'make.names'

> make.names("MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE")
[1] "MIDDLE.EAR.EXPLORE"


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Farrel Buchinsky<fjbuch at 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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