Hi Jessica,
this tells me that your text is saved as a factor.
Try :
names <- read.csv(file="Names.csv",stringsAsFactors=F)
Cheers
Joris
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jessica Queree
<j.j.que...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> My issue relates to adding text to a matrix and finding that the text is
> converted to a number.
>
>
>
> This is the section of code I'm having trouble with:
>
>
>
> # First, I load in a list of names from a .csv file to 'names'
>
> names <- read.csv(file("Names.csv"))
>
>
>
> # Then I define a matrix which will be populated with various test
> statistics, with several rows for each entry in names
>
>
>
> testOutput <-matrix(nrow = 200, ncol = 5)
>
> for (i in 1:nrow(names)){
>
>
>
> testOutput[i,1] <- names[i,1]
>
> testOutput[i,2] <- names[i,2]
>
>
>
> # test statistics code here
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> If I look at names[,1], I get the following:
>
>
>
> names[,1]
>
> [1] EQ_Level_UK EQ_Level_EUR EQ_Level_US EQ_Level_Far
> East
>
> [5] IR_PC 1_UK IR_PC 2_UK IR_PC 3_UK Swap_PC 1_UK
>
> [9] Swap_PC 2_UK Swap_PC 3_UK FX_Level_EUR FX_Level_US
>
> [13] FX_Level_Far East Infl_PC 1_UK Infl_PC 2_UK Infl_PC 3_UK
>
> [17] Prop_Level_UK CreditAAA_PC 1_UK CreditAAA_PC 2_UK CreditAAA_PC
> 3_UK
>
> [21] CreditAA_PC 1_UK CreditAA_PC 2_UK CreditAA_PC 3_UK CreditA_PC 1_UK
>
> [25] CreditA_PC 2_UK CreditA_PC 3_UK CreditBBB_PC 1_UK CreditBBB_PC
> 2_UK
>
> [29] CreditBBB_PC 3_UK
>
> 29 Levels: CreditA_PC 1_UK CreditA_PC 2_UK CreditA_PC 3_UK ... Swap_PC 3_UK
>
>
>
> But if I look at testOutput[,1], I get:
>
>
>
> testOutput[,1]
>
> [1] "15" "13" "16" "14" "23" "24" "25" "27" "28" "29" "17" "19" "18" "20"
> "21"
>
> [16] "22" "26" "7" "8" "9" "4" "5" "6" "1" "2" "3" "10" "11" "12"
> "17"
>
> [31] NA NA "19" "18" NA NA NA "20" NA NA "21" NA NA "22"
> NA
>
> [46] NA "26" NA NA "7" NA NA "8" NA NA "9" NA NA "4"
> NA
>
> [61] NA "5" NA NA "6" NA NA "1" NA NA "2" NA NA "3"
> NA
>
> [76] NA "10" NA NA "11" NA NA "12" NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [91] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [106] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [121] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [136] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [151] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [166] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [181] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NA
>
> [196] NA NA NA NA NA
>
>
>
> That is, the names are now converted to numbers. I think this might have
> something to do with the way I've defined the testOutput matrix, but
> haven't
> been able to find any information about how to fix it. Can anyone help?
>
>
>
> Many thanks.
>
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