[R] Data import from .csv-file with numeric header

[Duncan Murdoch]

Tobias Ruff wrote:
> Hello everybody out there using R,
>
> How can I import data with a numeric header from a .csv-file?
> My file example.csv has the following content (a duplicate measurement of potentials for three different currents):
> 1; 2; 6
> 1.0; 2.1; 5.9
> 1.1; 2.0; 6.0
>
> I try to import the data by using:
>   
>> measurement <- read.table("example.csv",sep=";",header=T)
>>     
> However, the values in the header are renamed to the column names X1, X2 and X3.
> When I try to plot the data, I don't get the right x-values (the three different currents 1, 2 and 6), but 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0:
>   
>> plot(mean(measurement))

I got X1, X2 and X6, because 1, 2, and 6 aren't legal variable names.  
If you want to use them as names anyway, use the check.names=FALSE argument.

I don't know how you tried to plot them so I can't help you with that.

Duncan Murdoch