"Kalaylioglu, Zeynep (IMS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > I am trying to read a data frame from a text editor in to R. I want some > of the columns to be read in as "character" not numeric. > I figured that I can do that by using "colClasses" in "read.table" > command. However, I couldn't find out how to use > "colClasses". e.g. say I have 5 column in the data file. I want 1st and > 3rd column to be read in as character. How can I define > this using colClasses? (or is there a better way to do what I want?)
The easiest is probably read.table(....as.is=c(1,3)....) but you could also do cC <- rep(NA,5) cC[c(1,3)] <- "character" read.table(....colClasses=cC...) which would be more readily generalized to "stranger" data types. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
