Try this:

read.table(...., check.names = FALSE)

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Cloudy56 <clough.jonathan@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Is there any way to maintain spaces, slashes, and parentheses in variable
> names when reading these into R?
>
> Of course, read.table converts these to periods.  However, I know that it's
> not strictly illegal to have these characters in variable names as I am
> able
> to add them using the "variable editor" portion of the "data editor."
>
> I need to batch produce dozens of histograms for reporting purposes and my
> data is loaded with special characters e.g. "Historic Trend (mm/yr)"
> Adding "Historic.Trend..mm.yr." to my plots is not acceptable for reporting
> purposes.  Do I really need to manually label all of my plots each time I
> produce them in R or manually change the variable names in the Data Editor?
>
> Any help that anyone may be able to provide to allow me to read data
> without
> "corrupting" my variable labels would be appreciated.  (Forgive me if this
> is a dumb question, first day in R.)
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