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Katarzyna Rembeza
Katarzyna Rembeza

Reputation: 29

separate function, error:object not found

I am trying to separate the first column in the attached tibble (a file is called data).

data

The code I am using looks a follows:

data %>% separate(
`age,unit,sex,indic_em,geo\time`,
into = c('age', 'unit', 'sex', 'indic_em', 'geo\time'),
sep = ',',
remove = F,
convert = T)

Yet, I am receiving this error: Error in eval_tidy(enquo(var), var_env) : object 'age,unit,sex,indic_em,geo\time' not found

Any ideas what can cause the issue? Many thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 385

Answers (1)

manotheshark
manotheshark

Reputation: 4357

You're likely running into a problem with using \ which is an escape character in R. Likely you'll need to either escape the backlash with \\ or rename the column to remove the character.

Upvotes: 1

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