problems with read.csv

Dear all,

I'd like to ask help on R code to get the same results as the  
following
Splus code:

indata<-importData("/home/data_new.csv")

indata[1:5,4]

[1] 0930 1601 1006 1032 1020

I tried the following R code:

indata<-read.csv("/home/data_new.csv")

Do you get what you desire with setting as.is=TRUE?

indata<-read.csv("/home/data_new.csv", as.is=TRUE )

Also see the colClasses arguments in read.xxx functions.

indata[1:5,4]

[1]  930 1601 1006 1032 1020

I'd like the first one to be 0930, too.

So you want the strings (aka "character" vectors) to stay strings.

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

I use 

indata = read.csv(file.choose(),header=TRUE)

of course you can specify your file.

Joe King
206-913-2912
jp at joepking.com
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name
worth remembering." --Theodore Roosevelt


-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Fang (Betty) Yang
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:10 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] problems with read.csv

Dear all,

 

I'd like to ask help on R code to get the same results as the following
Splus code:

indata<-importData("/home/data_new.csv")

indata[1:5,4]

[1] 0930 1601 1006 1032 1020

 

I tried the following R code:

indata<-read.csv("/home/data_new.csv")

indata[1:5,4]

[1]  930 1601 1006 1032 1020

 

I'd like the first one to be 0930, too.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Betty

 

 

 

 



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