Re: [R] Issue with assigning text to matrix

2010-06-09 Thread Jessica Queree
Thanks for all your help. I found adding the 'stringsAsFactors' condition solved the problem. On 1 June 2010 17:09, Joris Meys jorism...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jessica, this tells me that your text is saved as a factor. Try : names - read.csv(file=Names.csv,stringsAsFactors=F) Cheers Joris

[R] Issue with assigning text to matrix

2010-06-01 Thread Jessica Queree
My issue relates to adding text to a matrix and finding that the text is converted to a number. This is the section of code I'm having trouble with: # First, I load in a list of names from a .csv file to 'names' names - read.csv(file(Names.csv)) # Then I define a matrix which will be

Re: [R] Issue with assigning text to matrix

2010-06-01 Thread Sarah Goslee
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Jessica Queree j.j.que...@googlemail.com wrote: My issue relates to adding text to a matrix and finding that the text is converted to a number. A matrix can only hold one type of data. Since you started with character, that's what you get. A dataframe can hold

Re: [R] Issue with assigning text to matrix

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
Jessica, Two further comments: 1. When you read your data, your character vectors are stored as factors; is that what you want? 2. You may be better off using a list. -Peter Ehlers On 2010-06-01 7:47, Sarah Goslee wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Jessica Queree

Re: [R] Issue with assigning text to matrix

2010-06-01 Thread Joris Meys
Hi Jessica, this tells me that your text is saved as a factor. Try : names - read.csv(file=Names.csv,stringsAsFactors=F) Cheers Joris On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jessica Queree j.j.que...@googlemail.comwrote: My issue relates to adding text to a matrix and finding that the text is