[R] Blank spaces are replaced by period in read.csv, I want to replace blacks with an underline

[John Sorkin]

I am reading a csv file. The column headers have spaces in them. The spaces are replaced by a period. I want to replace the space by another character (e.g. the underline) rather than the period. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this?Thank you,
John

John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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