[Rd] write.table

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
06 Dec 2000 11:05:32 +0100


Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> and the names get converted during that process to valid names.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^

Just to pick a nit: Could we make a habit of distinguishing between
"names" and "identifiers"? The latter being the syntactical term in
the R language, briefly the names that you don't need to use get() to
access. "123" and "Height in cm" are valid names, but not valid
identifiers.

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