[R] Dealing with parentheses within variable names

[Frans Marcelissen]

Sorry:
> sub("[(]","", names(dataFrame)
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> and
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> sub("[)]","", names(dataFrame)
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> Frans

2013/3/1 Frans Marcelissen <fransiepansiekevertje at gmail.com>:
> Try
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> sub("[(]","", names(dataFrams)
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> and
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> sub("[)]","", names(dataFrams)
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> Frans
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> 2013/2/28 Jesus Munoz Serrano <jesusmunozserrano at gmail.com>
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>> Dear all
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>> I'm having some problems with a data set that has parenthesis within the variable names. A example of this kind of variable names is the following:
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>>                                 fBodyGyroskewness()Z
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>> The case is that R is having a lot of troubles to identify the variable (probably it does understand it like a function). I've tried (among other things) to remove the parenthesis from the name using the following command:
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>>                                 names(dataFrame) <- sub("()","", names(dataFrame))
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>> but It didn't work.  Sorry if it's a silly issue but I would really appreciate if anybody could help me. Thank you very much.
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