Re: [R] Importing data in text file into R

On Fri, 23-May-2008 at 08:40PM -0700, amarjit singh sethi wrote: |> Dear all, |> I am quite new to R; facing certain problems: |> Say, I have a text file( named as "try"): |> > idt=read.table(df,header=T, sep="\t") |> > idt |> Year C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 |> 1 Y1 3.5 13.8 9.5 6.8 0.4

Re: [R] Importing data in text file into R

Dear AJSS, The problem is that the way you've read the data, the first column of the data frame is a factor, not a numerical variable, and thus is not suitable for computing correlations. You could use the command cor(idt[,-1]) to compute correlations on all but the first column, but your

[R] Importing data in text file into R

Dear all, I am quite new to R; facing certain problems: Say, I have a text file( named as "try"): YearC1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Y1 3.5 13.89.5 6.8 0.4 24.2 Y2 3.8 13.99.9 7.6 0.7 12.8 Y3 4.5 14.514.29.2 0.6