R help - Sep 2009 - Header names when importing csv/excel data sets

Dear R users,


Suppose the csv file contains header names such as *"Nike, dunk"*,
*"Converse,
All stars"* etc

When imported to R (with header = T option), the column names are given by:

            *"Nike..dunk"*      *"Converse..All.stars"*

I have tried the following command to convert these column names to the
original names as in the input source. (i.e substituting "*.."* to
"*, *")

chartr("..",", ",colnames(dat))
> "Nike  dunk"     "Converse  All stars"
Not getting what Im expecting...

Greatly appreciate for your help in resolving this matter.






Steven

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See the check.names= argument to read.table.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Steven Kang <stochastickang at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
>
> Suppose the csv file contains header names such as *"Nike,
dunk"*, *"Converse,
> All stars"* etc
>
> When imported to R (with header = T option), the column names are given by:
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ?*"Nike..dunk"* ? ? ?*"Converse..All.stars"*
>
> I have tried the following command to convert these column names to the
> original names as in the input source. (i.e substituting "*.."*
to "*, *")
>
> chartr("..",", ",colnames(dat))
>> "Nike ?dunk" ? ? "Converse ?All stars"
>
> Not getting what Im expecting...
>
> Greatly appreciate for your help in resolving this matter.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Steven
>
> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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