problem in reading GDX file
On 21-05-2013, at 13:16, shyam basnet <shyamabc2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear R-Users, While reading a GDX file from GAMS-software, the R-program does not read the string (text) observations. Instead, it assigns some numerical values to each text. Do you have some idea on how to read string observations? Example in GDX file: fid out year value 1_2_3 RICE 1995 130.54 1_2_3 WHEAT 1996 115-40
Is the 115-40 correct?
1_2_4 RICE 1995 120.20 1_2_4 WHEAT 1996 115.40 But, the R-software reads the above data as: fid out year value 2721 10281 2155 130.54 2721 10284 2156 115-40 2726 10281 2155 120.20 2726 10284 2156 115.40 I want read the GDX file in as it is condition.
You have not shown which function you have used to read in the file. If you have used read.table or one of the alternatives: ?read.table and look at argument stringsAsFactors: set it to FALSE. The strings have been treated as factors. Berend