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. >
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