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Message-ID: <1408127247.34349.YahooMailNeo@web142606.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Date: 2014-08-15T18:27:27Z
From: arun
Subject: how to avoid change string to number automaticlly in r
In-Reply-To: <CAFkuWq41M35h-7mO3RLd4FLb_=LC_vhZBPKA6m9rjW+_YK_Ksg@mail.gmail.com>

A similar post was found in stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25328311/how-to-avoid-change-string-to-number-automaticlly-in-r), which already got an accepted reply.

A.K.




On Friday, August 15, 2014 2:18 PM, Wenlan Tian <tianwenlan at gmail.com> wrote:
I was trying to save some string into a matrix, but it automatically
changed to numbers (levels). How can i avoid it??

Here is the original table:

? trt? ? means? M1 0?  12.16673? a2 111 11.86369 ab3 125 11.74433 ab4
14? 11.54073? b

I wanna to save to a matrix like:
J0001 a ab ab b

But, what i get is:
J0001 1 2 2 3

How can i avoid this?

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