ivo welch yale.edu> writes:
> thank you, chaps. ok, so this is not as straightforward as I had
> thought. perhaps the read.table() function should have the ability to
> read inline (terminated, e.g., by two newlines, or a usersettable
> string), rather than just from a file. this would be a
Hi Ivo!
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-June/050601.html
Sincerely
Eryk
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On 6/9/2004 at 3:29 PM ivo welch wrote:
>>>hi: I searched the last 2 hours for a way to enter a data frame
>>>directly in my program. (I know how to read f
thank you, chaps. ok, so this is not as straightforward as I had
thought. perhaps the read.table() function should have the ability to
read inline (terminated, e.g., by two newlines, or a usersettable
string), rather than just from a file. this would be a nice feature.
regards, /iaw
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easy to do it by column:
> d <-
data.frame(name=c("obs1name","obs2name","obs3name"),val1=c(0.2,0.4,0.6),val2=c(0.3,1.0,2.0),row.names=c("r1","r2","r3"))
> d
name val1 val2
r1 obs1name 0.2 0.3
r2 obs2name 0.4 1.0
r3 obs3name 0.6 2.0
>
(when you do it by row, you get the numbers as fac
?data.frame says:
Usage:
data.frame(..., row.names = NULL, check.rows = FALSE, check.names =
TRUE)
Arguments:
...: these arguments are of either the form 'value' or
'tag=value'. Component names are created based on the tag
(if present) or the deparsed argument its
hi: I searched the last 2 hours for a way to enter a data frame
directly in my program. (I know how to read from a file.) that is, I
would like to say something like
d <- this.is.a.data.frame( c("obs1name", 0.2, 0.3),
c("obs2name", 0.4, 1.0),
