I agree with you Duncan because I sense the hostility too, but, in any environment, there are going to be those who 'don't play well with others.' I just delete and read the next posting. I'm personally here to learn :)
On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 19/08/2010 4:15 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Do not post such questions to this list. > Read an Introduction to R first, please. > I think that's a bit harsh: Bruce is trying to help R users, but doesn't necessarily want to learn to be one. > -- Bert > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Bruce Como <br...@lmcsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am neither a statistician nor a user of R. I am a programmer trying to > > provide my users (both statisticians and R users) data in a format that > > works best for them. > > > > What is a data frame? Is source data easier to work with in this format or > > a csv file? Or yet another format? > A data frame is an internal structure in R. If you produce data in a csv file, it is easy for an R user to import it into a data frame. Take the usual care with quotes, commas, etc. within strings in the file. Duncan Murdoch > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > Bruce > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.