 regexp approach is kinda ugly

http://www.r-bloggers.com/testing-for-valid-variable-names/

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley@rice.edu> wrote:

> > I wouldn't expect so. The basic structure might be handled using a regexp
> of sorts, but even that is tricky because of the "dot not followed by
> number" rule, and then there's the stop list of reserved words, which would
> make your code clumsy whatever you do.
> >
> > How on Earth would you expect anything to be significantly more elegant
> than your
> >
> > function(x) x == make.names(x)
> >
> > anyway??! (OK, if there was a wrapper for the C level isValidName()
> function...)
>
> Good point.  Thanks!
>
> Hadley
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