Any way to preserve spaces in names when calling transform ()?

Question

Is there a way to preserve spaces in the data.frame column names when calling transform ()? They are currently fighting:

> transform(data.frame('a b'=1, check.names=F), `c d`=`a b`)
  a.b c.d
1   1   1

+3

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Yang 21 Mar At 23:39

1 answer

mathematical.coffee · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21T23:47:53+0000

Just submit check.names=F

to transform

:

> transform(data.frame('a b'=1, check.names=F), `c d`=`a b`,check.names=F)
  a b c d
1   1   1

However, I don't see this in the documentation for ?transform

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