Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-22 Thread Petr Pikal
2006 08:52:04 -0500 From: "Carl Klarner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: [R] How to Import Data > Hello, > I am a very new user of R. I've spent several hours trying to import > data, so I feel okay asking the li

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/21/2006 9:13 AM, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > 1) You need to use sep="," which is appropriate for a CSV file. > > 2) You need to specify the FULL path to the file. See > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#R-can_0027t-find-my-file The advice to look at the FAQ is good, b

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:52:04AM -0500, Carl Klarner wrote: > x111 <-read.table(file='x111.csv', > sep="",header=T, > quote="",comment.char="",as.is=T) to make things easier for you you could do x111 <-read.table( file.choose(), ... ) Also: Why are you setting sep="" ? Your filename suggests

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Aleš Žiberna
Or, you should put the whole path to that file, for example file='C:/My documents/x111.csv' Best, Ales Ziberna Johann Jacoby pravi: > carl, > > you wrote: > > >> I would imagine I'm not putting my csv file in the right location for R >> to be able to read it. If that's the case, where shoul

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
1) You need to use sep="," which is appropriate for a CSV file. 2) You need to specify the FULL path to the file. See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#R-can_0027t-find-my-file 3) You can use read.csv which is the read.table variant for CSV files. For example a <- read.

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Carl Klarner isugw.indstate.edu> writes: > > I would imagine I'm not putting my csv file in the right location for R > to be able to read it. If that's the case, where should I put it? Or > is there something else I need to do to it first? > Thanks for your help, > Carl You're probably righ

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Jacques VESLOT
select the directory with setwd() and then import data: setwd("d:/.../yourdirectory") x111 <- read.table("x111.csv",...) or indicate path behind filename: x111 <- read.table("d:/.../yourdirectory/x111.csv",...) besides, there are other functions to import data. see ?read.table Carl Klarner a

Re: [R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Johann Jacoby
carl, you wrote: > I would imagine I'm not putting my csv file in the right location for R > to be able to read it. If that's the case, where should I put it? Or > is there something else I need to do to it first? getwd() gives you the working directory in which the datafile has to reside. jo

[R] How to Import Data

2006-02-21 Thread Carl Klarner
Hello, I am a very new user of R. I've spent several hours trying to import data, so I feel okay asking the list for help. I had an Excel file, then I turned it into a "csv" file, as instructed by directions. My filename is "x111.csv." I then used the following commands to read this (fairly sma

Re: [R] How to import data as numeric array?

2005-06-28 Thread ronggui
maybe you can use the array function,like >array(CO2,dim(CO2),list(rownames(CO2),colnames(CO2))) and matrix is just a specif type of array,so maybe you can use as.matrix >as.matrix(CO2) the above tow,the CO2 is a data.frame which can use read.table to read in. the third way is:use the scan the re

Re: [R] How to import data as numeric array?

2005-06-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please consult the `R Data Import/Export Manual'. You could be using scan(), as in matrix(scan("some_file", 0), nrow=n, byrow=TRUE) On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, tong wang wrote: > Did some search but couldn't find useful result. > > I am trying to read a n*m dimension data with read.table, what i n

[R] How to import data as numeric array?

2005-06-28 Thread tong wang
Did some search but couldn't find useful result. I am trying to read a n*m dimension data with read.table, what i need is a numeric array, is there any efficient way to allow me get this array directly instead of a list? I tried to use as.array() to change the mode, but seems it doesn't work