[R] rpart space in column names

[Jeff Newmiller]

It is isn't easy to write code that works with column names that have spaces. You could rewrite rpart, or just rename the columns in your data frame to work around the "bug". See ?names.
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Raji <raji.sankaran at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Our data has column names with spaces in that.The names in dataFrame
>are,
>    *[1] "Sepal Length" "Sepal Width"  "Petal Length" "Petal Width" 
>"Species" *
>When i try to use the column names in rpart function, it gives the
>following
>error.
>*   rp<-rpart(as.factor(`Species`)~`Sepal Length`)
>Error in `[.data.frame`(frame, predictors) : undefined columns
>selected*
>
>But , a similar call works for kmeans/nnet functions.For example,
>  *nn<-nnet(as.factor(`Species`)~`Sepal Length`,size=3)*
>
>Is there any way in which column names with spaces be used in rpart
>function
>like being used in nnet/kmeans function?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help,
>Raji
>
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