> x
   playerID yearID stint teamID lgID   G  AB  R   H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB
1 robleos01   2005     1    LAN   NL 110 364 44  99 18  1  5  34  0  8 31
2 iguchta01   2005     1    CHA   AL 135 511 74 142 25  6 15  71 15  5 47
3 molinya01   2005     1    SLN   NL 114 385 36  97 15  1  8  49  2  3 23
> x[["H]]

+ > x[["H"]]
[1]  99 142  97
> x[["2B"]]
[1] 18 25 15
>

On 2/23/06, Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I'm have a hard time working with some data I imported from a baseball
> database.  Several of the database columns have numbers in them (2B,
> 3B), and when I try to use these vectors from the data frame, I get
> syntax errors, probably because it's interpreting the name as a number:
>
> > show(batting2005)
>   playerID yearID stint teamID lgID   G  AB   R   H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS  BB
>
>   1   robleos01   2005     1    LAN   NL 110 364  44  99 18  1  5
> 34  0  8  31
>   2   iguchta01   2005     1    CHA   AL 135 511  74 142 25  6 15 71
> 15  5  47
>   3   molinya01   2005     1    SLN   NL 114 385  36  97 15  1  8
> 49  2  3  23
>   . . .
> > print(batting2005$HR)
>   [1]  5 15  8  3 14  3  6 21  8  7  9 27 12  5 14  8 28  9 22 15  5
>   22  9 10  1
>   . . .
> > print(batting2005$2B)
> Error: syntax error in "print(batting2005$2"
>
> > SLG<-(H + 2B + 3B * 2 + HR * 3) / AB;
> Error: syntax error in "SLG<-(H + 2B"      # batting2005 is attached
>
> > SLG<-(H + "2B" + "3B" * 2 + HR * 3) / AB;
> Error in H + "2B" : non-numeric argument to binary operator
>
> Is there a way to "escape" the '2B' somehow or encapsulate it so that R
> knows I'm talking about that particular numeric vector?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
> --
> Christopher S. Swingley          email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu
> Intl. Arctic Research Center
> University of Alaska Fairbanks   www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/
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