Hi, a good start is to verify that what you have read meets your expectations. Try

 str(data1)
 dim(data1)
 print(data1)

and make sure you read ?read.table. There are plenty of *arguments* that affects the way R reads your data text file.

/Henrik

Wagle, Mugdha wrote:
Hi,
The file I am reading is a text file, whose contents are a matrix that has 15 rows and 58 columns. The first row has column names, and the first column has row names, so the format is correct as far as using read.table is concerned. The other values in the table are all float values (numeric). So when I read in the file using data1 <- read.table("HAL001_HAL0015_Signals.txt"), it gets read in as a table, but when I try to manipulate an individual value as follows: data1[2 ,2] <- log(data1[2 ,2]+20) , I get the "object is not subsettable" message. This error occurs when I use R only...Perl is not being used at this point. My script needs to take input from an HTML page (using a CGI interface) which will be the name of the file to be passed onto R as a table. Since read.table isn't working within R itself, I haven't used it for the function call from Perl to R yet. Instead, I have been making repeated function calls using a loop in Perl, to access other R and Bioconductor fun
ct!
 ions that I need such as t.test and ANOVA. This is very time-consuming, 
however. I am working in a Linux environment, and using
 R 2.1.0
Thanks for any help and suggestions! Mugdha Wagle ________________________________

From: Sean Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 6/3/2005 8:03 AM
To: Wagle, Mugdha
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] reading tables into R. .




On Jun 3, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Wagle, Mugdha wrote:


I have been using R and Perl. When  I read in a text file using the
read.table option, and I try to mathematically manipulate the
individual elements in the table, I keep getting an "object is not
subsettable" error. If I try to use a different method, it works, but
takes too much time(basically, I then need to read in values
individually into R instead of as a 2D array, so the number of
function calls from Perl to R is very large). Could you suggest
another method whereby I could read an entire matrix or a file using
an R function call?



Mugdha,

I think you will probably have to be more specific.   Could you give an
example of the data format, the commands you used to load it that
didn't work, and those that did and explain how perl comes into this? Also, knowing what OS and version of R you are using is quite helpful.

Sean

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