Hi, On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Steven Yen <sye...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > I am designing a regression printout, which works out nicely. Then, I try to > inject a column of characters to indicate a discrete regressor with a dot > (.). Then, all numbers seem to turn into characters, in quotations. Is there > a way to do this right? Below, I show the lines of codes before and after. > Thanks. > Steven Yen > > --- > out<-round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits) > colnames(out)<-c("estimates","s.e.","|t-value|","p-value") > rownames(out)<-rownames(me) > out > estimates s.e. |t-value| p-value > (Intercept) 0.223263 0.146167 1.527459 0.127173 > sex 0.049830 0.039612 1.257973 0.208890 > age -0.070423 0.029539 2.384035 0.017433 > yrmarry 0.015567 0.005298 2.938126 0.003429 > children 0.060525 0.044778 1.351659 0.176993 > religius -0.053128 0.014413 3.686260 0.000248 > educ 0.003226 0.008453 0.381636 0.702866 > occu 0.003915 0.011860 0.330147 0.741404 > rating -0.077856 0.014466 5.381925 0.000000 > > out<-round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits); out<-cbind(out,disc) > colnames(out)<-c("estimates","s.e.","|t-value|","p-value","disc") > rownames(out)<-rownames(me) > > (Intercept) "0.223263" "0.146167" "1.527459" "0.127173" "" > sex "0.04983" "0.039612" "1.257973" "0.20889" "." > age "-0.070423" "0.029539" "2.384035" "0.017433" "" > yrmarry "0.015567" "0.005298" "2.938126" "0.003429" "" > children "0.060525" "0.044778" "1.351659" "0.176993" "." > religius "-0.053128" "0.014413" "3.68626" "0.000248" "" > educ "0.003226" "0.008453" "0.381636" "0.702866" "" > occu "0.003915" "0.01186" "0.330147" "0.741404" "" > rating "-0.077856" "0.014466" "5.381925" "0" "" > It appears the 'out' is originally a numeric matrix, thus adding column of characters demotes the entire matrix to character. Convert 'out' to data.frame to allow mixed data types. > out<-round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits); out <- as.data.frame(out) ; > out<-cbind(out,disc) Cheers, Ben > ______________________________________________ > 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.