[Rd] "with" doesn't work with names with blanks

Spencer Graves @pencer@gr@ve@ @end|ng |rom prod@y@e@com
Sun May 1 21:41:39 CEST 2022


Hello, All:


	  Column names in a data.frame are not supposed to have trailing 
blanks.  However, a CRAN package created one, which threw an error with 
"with".  Consider the following example:


 > (tst <- data.frame(1))
   X1
1  1
 > names(tst) <- 'x '
 > tst$x
[1] 1
 > with(txt, x)
Error in with(txt, x) : object 'txt' not found


	  I think it's interesting that "tst$x" works, but "with(txt, x)".


	  Comments?


	  It's not a major problem, though it took me a while to diagnose.  (I 
reported it to the maintainer of the package that returned a data.frame 
with names with trailing blanks.)


	  Thanks, for all your work in maintaining and upgrading R -- and in 
responding to emails from this list.


	  Spencer Graves


 > sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.6.5

Matrix products: default
LAPACK: 
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.0 tools_4.2.0
 >



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