See Bugzilla issue #17890 for some discussion on this.
https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17890
-Bill
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:17 AM Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> It seems transform can modify column names and accepts data.frame
> arguments such as chek.names= but neither of these is mentioned in the
> help file. For example this is how the ... argument is described.
>
> ...: Further arguments of the form ?tag=value?
>
> The Details section does not provide any information from which one
> could deduce this either.
>
> transform(BOD[1, ], "x y" = 1)
> ## Time demand x.y
> ## 1 1 8.3 1
>
> transform(BOD[1, ], "x y" = 1, check.names = FALSE)
> ## Time demand x y
> ## 1 1 8.3 1
>
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