"David Barron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You haven't shown the command you used to input the data, but it looks as > though you haven't told R not to convert the input into factors.
Looks even more like R wasn't told that the first line of data was the variable names. > summary on > factors shows the frequencies of the levels for each variable, which is what > your output shows. See ?read.table for how to prevent conversion into > factors. And possibly also the Data Import/Export manual. > On 23/09/06, Nel N. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Greetings everybody, > > I'm new with R and I'm trying to do some statistical analysis with R using > > my data. > > It is a DNA microarray data with 69 samples(row) and 7070 (column) > > variables. I read the file using the command > > 'file.table' and it can be done with no error.However, when I tried > > running > > a summary of the data, the result was not what I had expected. Below is an > > extract of the result. And I knew that the command summary will give a > > summary of a data's descriptive statistics such as it's median,mean,etc.So > > , > > what i want is the statistics summary of each gene (in each column). > > V7065 V7066 V7067 V7068 V7069 > > 20 :29 20 :69 117 : 2 39 : 6 20 :69 > > 25 : 4 X16699_at: 1 134 : 2 42 : 4 L49218_f_at: 1 > > 30 : 4 142 : 2 44 : 4 > > 23 : 3 170 : 2 46 : 4 > > 26 : 3 203 : 2 38 : 3 > > 21 : 2 96 : 2 58 : 3 > > (Other):25 (Other):58 (Other):46 > > V7070 V7071 > > 30 : 5 20 :69 > > 21 : 4 Z78285_f_at: 1 > > 51 : 4 > > 64 : 4 > > 27 : 3 > > 36 : 3 > > (Other):47 > > My data is in .dat format. Also, I have downloaded a few .rda files to be > > tried out with R but how do I view them as data per se, like the .dat file > > can be viewed and edited using Notepad, how about the .rda files? > > I express my greatest appreciation all who help. > > Thank you. > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-summary-of-data-tf2322882.html#a6462497 > > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > ================================= > David Barron > Said Business School > University of Oxford > Park End Street > Oxford OX1 1HP > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
