Message-ID: <5934ae57050406145839e55096@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2005-04-06T21:58:35Z
From: Rich FitzJohn
Subject: read.table with header and text data
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-F21C2E59301DFB2779EEA08D63D0@phx.gbl>
See ?read.table, especially the argument "as.is".
Cheers,
Rich
On Apr 7, 2005 9:55 AM, Laura Holt <lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi R!
>
> I am reading in a text file which has one column of alpha data and 5 columns
> of numeric data.
>
> There is a header row.
>
> I would like the alpha data column to just be character rather than factor.
>
> Is there a way to do this, please? I'm thinking that it might be I() but
> can't figure out exactly how.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
> mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com
> R 2.0.1 Windows
>
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