[R] Problems with read.table

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Heberto Ghezzo" <heberto at MEAKINS.Lan.McGill.CA> writes:

> -- so now, how can I read the file as numeric vectors?
> 
> > fvcpp
> [1] "99.28 " "86.97 " "81.12 " "98.12 " "90.50 "
> > fvcpp<-as.numeric(fvcpp)
> > fvcpp
> [1] 99.28 86.97 81.12 98.12 90.50
> > mean(fvcpp)
> [1] 91.198
> >
> 
> -- this is obviously not the way to do it, for each variable
> change it into numeric.
>  
> Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?, I used to follow the same 
> procedure a<-read.table(...  attach(a)  and have all my variables as 
> vectors with or without NA's .
> This file has no NA's is all complete.

Do you have spaces before the commas in your file?

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