[R] Column names containing ` in R

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Tue Nov 6 20:18:59 CET 2012


Hello,

Can't you remove the backquotes from names(df)? If so, you can do it with


x <- c("`region",    "farmsize`",  "farmincome", "maincrop", "claimvalue")
newx <- gsub("\\`", "", x)

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 06-11-2012 13:21, Raji escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> My data has column names which has ` character. For example ,
> *> names(dataframe)
> [1] "`region"    "farmsize`"  "farmincome" "maincrop"   "claimvalue"*
>
> If i use these objects in my function, the following error is thrown.
>
> *lmm<-lm(``region`~farmincome)
> Error: attempt to use zero-length variable name*
>
> Is there a way, say an escape sequence or something similar in which we can
> give these objects with the colnames to R functions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Raji
>
>
>
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