Hi R! I am reading in a text file which has one column of alpha data and 5 columns of numeric data. There is a header row. I would like the alpha data column to just be character rather than factor. Is there a way to do this, please? I'm thinking that it might be I() but can't figure out exactly how. Thanks, Laura mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com R 2.0.1 Windows
read.table with header and text data
2 messages · Laura Holt, Rich FitzJohn
See ?read.table, especially the argument "as.is". Cheers, Rich
On Apr 7, 2005 9:55 AM, Laura Holt <lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi R! I am reading in a text file which has one column of alpha data and 5 columns of numeric data. There is a header row. I would like the alpha data column to just be character rather than factor. Is there a way to do this, please? I'm thinking that it might be I() but can't figure out exactly how. Thanks, Laura mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com R 2.0.1 Windows
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