Using 'cat' on data frame
On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Gundala Viswanath wrote:
Dear all, I have the following data frame:
raw.count
Var1
Freq
1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 707
2 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC 14
3 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT 3
But why when printint it using 'cat', it doesn't print
the desired string "AAA" ?
cat(raw.count$Var1, "\n")
1 2 3 What's wrong with my cat command above.
"What's wrong" is that Var1 is a factor rather than a character vector. Veslot's answers provide the proper method for dealing with that situation.
David Winsemius > > > > > - Gundala Viswanath > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.