Looks like I've missed out the 'as.is' argument, I put it in and everything was alright! Thank you so much! In addition,there're a few .rda files that I've got that I would like to view as file perse. How do I open it because when I tried opening it with Notepad, it came out as unrecognised symbols. Thanx again.
Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > "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 ?ster 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-summary-of-data-tf2322882.html#a6470251 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.
