Re: [R] producing a QQ plot.

David Winsemius Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:10:50 -0700


On Mar 27, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote:

It is a bit of a side note really, but a convenient way to provide
data (particularly when it is complex) is via dput().  Not only is
this easier to read in, it preserves classes and other handy info.
For instance, once I had played around to get "Cook" and "Islands"
into one column (since there was a space) I could use:

dput(data, file="clipboard") #data is what is being written and it is
output to the clipboard, works decently in Windows at least

to get:

######################################################
structure(list(country = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L,

2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("Cook Islands", "French Polynesia"), class ="factor"),

   village = structure(c(1L, 4L, 6L, 8L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 7L, 9L), .Label
= c("Aitutaki",
   "Fakarava", "Maatea", "Mangaia", "Mataiea", "Palmerston",
   "Raivavae", "Rarotonga", "Tikehau"), class = "factor"), group =
structure(c(4L,
   3L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L), .Label = c("A", "B", "C",
   "D"), class = "factor"), av_expen = c(5239.127472, 4587.361877,
   7784.318736, 8793.256543, 7937.3952, 12135.84, 12718.57548,
   8741.5104, 6295.66), P2ary_ed = c(0.666666667, 0.602150538,
   0.166666667, 0.764285714, 0.36, 0.316455696, 0.341880342,
   0.285714286, 0.240384615), no_fisher = c(666.9998558, 207.69228,
   24.00000002, 223.8639163, 255.3600002, 293.7499998, 2082.386008,
   325.0665956, 114.0832839), B_Leth = c(3.286283997, 0.330248,
   1.384456001, 6.790178998, 7.485009002, 1.270781, 2.117207998,
   20.121207, 5.183129001), B_Lutjan = c(1.971519001, 1.846795,
   0.233746, 0.751358, 6.282185007, 0.526468, 0.340852, 4.458011998,
   7.178272997), Wt_Leth = c(520.6454552, 0, 0, 51.51418019,
   62.28921398, 1002.39553, 1830.16527, 63.49777279, 900.4192224
   ), Wt_Lutjan = c(126.2441843, 0, 57.76351477, 30.5970125,
   60.39332797, 648.4578044, 4239.861263, 0, 935.3617853)), .Names =
c("country",
"village", "group", "av_expen", "P2ary_ed", "no_fisher", "B_Leth",

"B_Lutjan", "Wt_Leth", "Wt_Lutjan"), class = "data.frame", row.names= c(NA,

-9L))
###########################################

This is easily retrievable by copying the entire block of text andusing:


dget("clipboard") # read the data into R

Just a further note that I hope in no way diminishes the value ofadvice to use dput(); one could also type:


data1 <-    # and then paste the copied material to the console.

It has the advantage of being general to all OS's while the device"clipboard" is not. Had you been on a Mac, you would have needed to use:


data_object <-  dget( pipe("pbpaste") )

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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