[R] difficulties with read.table applied to files from URL

2010-08-05 Thread Archana Dayalu
Hello, I am using read.table to read files directly from a public ftp site. I have a general list of files that may or may not exist in the ftp directory, but my hope was that R would read the file if it existed and ignored it if it didn't exist and move on to the next one. However, when R arrives

[R] Problem with "merge" command duplicating values

2009-07-22 Thread Archana Dayalu
Hello, I am attempting to merge 8 different data sets into a "grand merge" data set; all their variable names are common except for the the gas measured. However, when I did a quick stat summary comparison of merged data with unmerged data, it turned out that R mysteriously duplicated thousands of