On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:11:15AM -0400, Wade Wall wrote: > I have a text file that I have imported into R. It contains 3 columns and > 316940 rows. The first column is vegetation plot ID, the second species > names and the third is a cover value (numeric). I imported using the > read.table function. > > My problem is this. I need to reformat the information as a matrix, with > the first column becoming the row labels and the second the column labels > and the cover values as the matrix cell data.
I'm not 100% sure but I think you are looking for reshape(). cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ 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