I have a comma delimited text file in which many columns of numbers are also quoted and have commas as well as decimals. I was surprised to find read.csv() didn't import this seamlessly, even after messing around with the colClasses argument. I did find a solution to convert the character strings after reading them in, but wonder if there isn't a better one I overlooked.
test = c("10,522.5","11,768.9","11,354.3") as.numeric(test) # fails as.numeric(gsub(",","",test)) # works Any suggestions? Or is this as good as it gets? I'm not complaining ... just curious! Drew Tyre School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska-Lincoln 416 Hardin Hall, East Campus Lincoln, NE 68583-0974 phone: +1 402 472 4054 fax: +1 402 472 2946 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snr.unl.edu/tyre [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.