[R] Special characters in cell names

[Bill Dunlap]

Use backquotes, `X/Y`, to specify a name, not double quotes.

-Bill

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:58 AM Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> I have a column in my data file which is "X/Y". With '/' I want to
> emphasize that values are the ratio of X over Y.
> Problem is that in the following command for a violin plot, I am not able
> to specify that '/' even with double quotes.
>
> p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x=W, y="X/Y")) + geom_violin(trim=FALSE)
>
> However, if I change that column to "Y" and use
>
> p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x=W, y=Y)) + geom_violin(trim=FALSE)
>
> Then the plot will be correctly shown.
> Any ideas for that?
>
> Regards,
> Mahmood
>
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