Message-ID: <x2yamqaydf.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 1999-01-26T14:43:08Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Newbie query - reading data into R
In-Reply-To: Prof Brian Ripley's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:02:49 +0000 (GMT)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Try sep="\t", if they are really separated by tabs (they were not in
> your email by the time it reached here). Actually, you don't need
> as.if=F, either, as the first column should be the row names:
>
> > read.table("test.dat", header=T, row.names=1, sep="\t")
> Number
> Napier 324
> Auckland 657
> Wellington 879
> Christchurch 904
>
> works on your example (with tabs in the file).
>
> (S-PLUS behaves differently here, and guesses the first column
> should be the row names without being told).
So does read.table on Unix - I don't remember it doing anything else?
And with the original data (TAB separated and with a header for col.1
too), I got
> read.table("~/tmp/testdata", header=T)
City Number
1 Napier 324
2 Auckland 657
3 Wellington 879
4 Christchurch 904
> class(read.table("~/tmp/testdata", header=T))
[1] "data.frame"
I.e. no problem. ???
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