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On September 19, 2017 7:49:12 AM PDT, greg holly <mak.hholly at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Duncan and Bert;
>
>I do appreciate for your replies. I just figured out that after x1=
>noquotes(x) commend my 733*22 matrix returns into n*1 vector. Is there
>way
>to keep this as matrix with the dimension of 733*22?
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch
><murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On 19/09/2017 9:47 AM, greg holly wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all;
>>>
>>> I have data at 734*22 dimensions with rows and columns names are
>>> non-numeric.When I convert this data into matrix then all values
>show up
>>> with quotes. Then when I use
>>> x1= noquotes(x) to remove the quotes from the matrix then
>non-numeric row
>>> names remain all other values in matrix disappear.
>>>
>>> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Matrices in R can have only one type. If you start with a dataframe
>and
>> any columns contain character data, all entries will be converted to
>> character, and the matrix will be displayed with quotes.
>>
>> When you say all values disappear, it sounds as though you are
>displaying
>> strings containing nothing (or just blanks). Those will be displayed
>as ""
>> normally, but if the matrix is marked to display without quotes, they
>are
>> displayed as empty strings, so it will appear that nothing is
>displayed.
>>
>> You can see the structure of the original data using the str()
>function,
>> e.g. str(x) should display types for each column.
>>
>> If this isn't enough to explain what's going on, please show us more
>> detail. For example, show us the result of
>>
>> y <- x[1:5, 1:5]
>> dput(y)
>>
>> both before and after converting x to a matrix.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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