Factors are represented by integers numbers in R.

I think the numbers you got are the integer representation of factors
in your data frame.

Maybe if you convert factors for character you can solve the problem...

See the help for the factor()  function.

2008/12/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Thanks for your quick response, Laurent. I tried your suggestions and they
> worked, but there's still one problem. One of my columns are strings, but
> when I use the ".r[" operator, I get a list of numbers AND the list of
> strings. I have no idea what the numbers represent. When I type data.r["V4"]
> I get something like this:
>
> structure(list(V4 = structure(c(17L, 17L, ...), .Label = c("string1",
> "string2", ...), class = "factor")), .Names = "V4", class = "data.frame",
> row.names = c(NA, -39L))
>
> I typed the "..." to avoid too many details (also, I changed my actual
> strings to "string1", "string,", etc). I'm not sure what this structure
> means, but I just want to get the strings as a list. Oddly enough, when I
> type print(data), it correctly prints out the strings, not the numbers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlos
>
>
> Quoting "Laurent Gautier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Edit to the PS in my previous post:
> >
> > I did have the time to make RVectors use R's "[".
> >
> > use ".r[", e.g. dataf.r['Var1']
> >
> >
> > L.
> >
> >
> >
> > Carlos Jesus Anderson wrote:
> >> Hi, How may I convert an RDataFrame into Python objects? I used the
> >> read.table function in R to read in data (from Python), but now I
> >> want to treat the data as Python objects, like a dictionary or a set
> >> of lists. I don't want to work with RVectors. Thanks, Carlos
> >>
> >>
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