Re: [R] Numbers not numeric?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Charles Determan Jr wrote: > Greetings R users, > > I have a curious problem.  I read in a csv file (subset shown below) as > normal > data=read.table("C:/Users/Chaz/Desktop/test.csv",sep=",",header=TRUE, > na.strings=".") > > However, the numbers from the dataset

[R] Numbers not numeric?

Greetings R users, I have a curious problem. I read in a csv file (subset shown below) as normal data=read.table("C:/Users/Chaz/Desktop/test.csv",sep=",",header=TRUE, na.strings=".") However, the numbers from the dataset are not registered as numeric: is.numeric(data$Mesh) [1] FALSE When I try