Displaying 1 result from an estimated 1 matches for "pox_x".
Did you mean:
pos_x
1999 Aug 30
3
using underscore character in column names
...e:
------ start of file -----
pos_x pos_y
1.0 0.0
2.0 1.0
------ end of file -------
Using read.table, I can read this file just fine:
> data <- read.table (file="data", head=T)
> data
pos_x pos_y
1 1 0
2 2 1
>
However, I can't refer to pox_x because the _ character
is an alternative to <- (assignment):
> data$pos_x
Error: Object "x" not found
I could use data[1], but I'd prefer to use the column
name. Must I change all my column names to remove the
underscore character or is there way to force R to
recogize the w...