[R] problem with read.table

[Liaw, Andy]

Could it be that there are spaces in the names that were read in?

> a <- data.frame(" X"=1:2, " Y"=3:4, " Z"=5:6, check.names=FALSE)
> a
   X  Y  Z
1  1  3  5
2  2  4  6
> names(a)
[1] " X" " Y" " Z"
> a$X
NULL

Andy

> From: Krishna
> 
> Hi  Mr. Pedro
> 
> I tried names(a) and it displayed the names as X, Y and Z.
> 
> rgds
> 
> snvk
> 
> On 8/25/05, Pedro J. Aphalo <pedro.aphalo at cc.jyu.fi> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Did you try names(a) so see what are the names of the columns in the
> > dataframe?
> > 
> > Hope this helps a little.
> > 
> > Pedro.
> > 
> > Krishna wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > recently i faced an unknown problem while reading the data. Can
> > > someone help me in understanding why this happened.
> > >
> > > I have .txt file containing X, Y, Z variables. I used the command
> > >
> > >
> > >>a <- read.table("filename", header=TRUE)
> > >
> > > after reading the file i am able to view it by tryping a. but i am
> > > unable to access the variables in a, by giving the command a$X.
> > >
> > >
> > >>a$X
> > >>NULL
> > >
> > >
> > > this is the output it was showing. However the same i am able to
> > > access by giving a[[1]]. i tried changing the mode by 
> issuing command
> > > a <- as.data.frame(a). But situation remains the same.
> > >
> > > look forward for experts suggestion on this.
> > >
> > > rgds
> > >
> > > snvk
> > >
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