automatic levels
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Moritz Lennert wrote:
Hello, I've imported a csv, semi-colon spearated file with read.csv2, containing one column of rownames and one column of floating point numbers. When I look at the column of data with framename$columnname, I get the values of the column plus level values. Are these level values created automatically ?
Yes. It thinks the columns is not numeric. Is read.csv2 actually appropriate? That is, are the numbers using `,' as the decimal separator? Maybe you should be using read.table( , sep=";")?
The problem is when I try to calcluate the correlation coefficient between this set of data and another with lm(x~y), the result indicates that each level seems to have been used as independent variable, making my results unusable.
That's not how to calculate correlation coefficients: see ?cor.
How can I suppress the automatic creation of these levels ? Or how can I model with lm() without the levels interfering ? I've been trying to find the response in some of the manuals, but haven't been able to, so if someone could just point me to the right place...
Well, we don't know what you actually did and you supplied no examples, but my guess is that you need to go the R Data Manual and work out how to read your file as numbers.
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