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How escape or sanatize slash using regex in R?

I'm trying to read in a (tab separted) csv file in R. When I want to read the column including a /, I get an error. 

doSomething <- function(dataset) {
     a <- dataset$data_transfer.Jingle/TCP.total_size_kb
     ...
     }

The error says, that this object cannot be found. I've tried escaping with backslash but it did not work.

If anybody has got some idea, I'd really appreciate it!

Solution

  • Give

    head(dataset)

    and watch the name it has been given. Perhaps it would be something like:

    dataset$data_transfer.Jingle.TCP.total_size_kb