HI, indeed the check.names=False did work properly. david Vincent Carey wrote: > please read the posting guide and the documentation on the function you are > using. > you need the check.names parameter to be set in a way that works for you. i > don't > know what will happen for your greek character but presumably if you set > your > environment variables suitably it will be propagated according to the rules > of string handling in R. > 'X's are prepended by default to nonsyntactic column names according to the > behavior > of make.names; if you set check.names=FALSE this is avoided. > >> x = read.table("~/ta.txt", h=TRUE) >> x > X1abc X2 > 1 1 2 >> x = read.table("~/ta.txt", h=TRUE, check.names=FALSE) >> x > 1abc 2 > 1 1 2 >> names(x) > [1] "1abc" "2" > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:47 AM, David martin <vilanew at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > >> The Header file (no quotes in the file): >> ######## >> Gene Coli-r1 1ug-r1 1ug-r2 Blank-r1 >> .... .... ... ... ... >> >> ####reading the file >> t = read.table(file="file.txt",header=TRUE) >> colnames(t) >> >> [1] "Gene" "Coli.r1" "X1ug.r1" "X1ug.r2" "X1ug.r3" "Blank.r1" >> >> As you can see the colname starting with a number are not treated as i >> expected. An "X" is added ??? Also the "?" is not handled properly, i have >> replaced it with "u" in my example ??? >> >> How come that the names of the columns are changed ??? how to avoid that >> ??? >> >> >> thanks for any help! >> >> david >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

HI, indeed the check.names=False did work properly. david Vincent Carey wrote: > please read the posting guide and the documentation on the function you are > using. > you need the check.names parameter to be set in a way that works for you. i > don't > know what will happen for your greek character but presumably if you set > your > environment variables suitably it will be propagated according to the rules > of string handling in R. > 'X's are prepended by default to nonsyntactic column names according to the > behavior > of make.names; if you set check.names=FALSE this is avoided. > >> x = read.table("~/ta.txt", h=TRUE) >> x > X1abc X2 > 1 1 2 >> x = read.table("~/ta.txt", h=TRUE, check.names=FALSE) >> x > 1abc 2 > 1 1 2 >> names(x) > [1] "1abc" "2" > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:47 AM, David martin <vilanew at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > >> The Header file (no quotes in the file): >> ######## >> Gene Coli-r1 1ug-r1 1ug-r2 Blank-r1 >> .... .... ... ... ... >> >> ####reading the file >> t = read.table(file="file.txt",header=TRUE) >> colnames(t) >> >> [1] "Gene" "Coli.r1" "X1ug.r1" "X1ug.r2" "X1ug.r3" "Blank.r1" >> >> As you can see the colname starting with a number are not treated as i >> expected. An "X" is added ??? Also the "?" is not handled properly, i have >> replaced it with "u" in my example ??? >> >> How come that the names of the columns are changed ??? how to avoid that >> ??? >> >> >> thanks for any help! >> >> david >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor