Bob Roberts <quagmire54321 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > I have a data set that I read in using readLines, but R classes it as a character string. The data set has > multiple columns and rows, but I only want the first 2 columns in the form of a matrix. Thanks for the help.
data(CO2) str(CO2) col2 = as.matrix(CO2[,1:2]) str(col2) Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.