From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Dec  6 10:05:32 2000
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 06 Dec 2000 11:05:32 +0100
Subject: [Rd] write.table
In-Reply-To: Prof Brian Ripley's message of "Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:23:32 +0000 (GMT)"
References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10012060920060.2551-100000@toucan.stats>
Message-ID: <x2y9xtg903.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> and the names get converted during that process to valid names.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^

Just to pick a nit: Could we make a habit of distinguishing between
"names" and "identifiers"? The latter being the syntactical term in
the R language, briefly the names that you don't need to use get() to
access. "123" and "Height in cm" are valid names, but not valid
identifiers.

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[Rd] write.table
Peter Dalgaard BSA