colClasses > x <- read.table('clipboard', header=T, colClasses=c(rep('factor',4),rep('numeric',4)))
> x Pig Evit Cu Litter Start Weight Feed Time 1 4601 1 1 1 26.5 26.50000 NA 1 2 4601 1 1 1 26.5 27.59999 5.200005 2 3 4601 1 1 1 26.5 36.50000 17.600000 3 4 4601 1 1 1 26.5 40.29999 28.500000 4 > str(x) `data.frame': 4 obs. of 8 variables: $ Pig : Factor w/ 1 level "4601": 1 1 1 1 $ Evit : Factor w/ 1 level "1": 1 1 1 1 $ Cu : Factor w/ 1 level "1": 1 1 1 1 $ Litter: Factor w/ 1 level "1": 1 1 1 1 $ Start : num 26.5 26.5 26.5 26.5 $ Weight: num 26.5 27.6 36.5 40.3 $ Feed : num NA 5.2 17.6 28.5 $ Time : num 1 2 3 4 > On 1/13/06, Søren Højsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a .txt file obtained by saving a data frame in which the first four > columns are factors (but represented as 1,2,3 etc). The first four lines are > > "Pig" "Evit" "Cu" "Litter" "Start" "Weight" "Feed" "Time" > "4601" "1" "1" "1" 26.5 26.5 NA 1 > "4601" "1" "1" "1" 26.5 27.59999 5.200005 2 > "4601" "1" "1" "1" 26.5 36.5 17.6 3 > "4601" "1" "1" "1" 26.5 40.29999 28.5 4 > > I would like to include that data set in an R-package. When I load the > data from the package the first four columns are read in as numeric > variables. This is consistent with the documentation of read.table - but > it is not what I want! I can of course change the coding of the variables, > but there ought to be another way. Can anyone help me on that? > Best regards > Søren Højsgaard > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 247 0281 What the problem you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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