Re: [R] Numeric data not numeric in .csv file

2012-05-02 Thread Eve Proper
) [1] language instead of storage.mode(hikes$miles) [1] double The fault was in my grasp of R's syntax, not the data. Thanks! On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.netwrote: On May 1, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Eve Proper wrote: I am a raw novice to R, playing around

[R] Numeric data not numeric in .csv file

2012-05-01 Thread Eve Proper
I am a raw novice to R, playing around with a mini .csv dataset created in Excel. I can read it in and the data looks OK in Excel and upon initial inspection in R: hikes - read.csv(/Users/eproper/Desktop/hikes.csv, header=TRUE) print(hikes) does exactly what it is supposed to do. Two of the