Thanks for all your help. I found adding the 'stringsAsFactors' condition
solved the problem.
On 1 June 2010 17:09, Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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