On Nov 13, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Ramesh Gautam wrote: > While importing .csv files into R, all data are converted to factor-by > default. But, how can I preserve the original format of the data like > numeric to numeric, integer to integer, character to character etc while > importing from csv to R environment. > > I tried several ways, no thing helps. I used 'stringsAsFactor = FALSE' > command, it did convert all data to characters. But, I wanted to preserve > the numeric data to be in integer or double.
Use colClasses. And if that hint is not enough then post an example to work with. > > Any idea? examples? > > Thanks > > [[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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.