On 28/07/2008, at 3:26 PM, Edna Bell wrote:
Dear R list: I have a data set that I would like to bring it. The fourth column shows as numeric, but I want it to be a factor. Is there a way to do this from the read.table statement, or should I just wait and use the factor function please?
Look at the colClasses argument to read.table(). cheers, Rolf Turner ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ 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.