[R] converting among modes

[Mark Myatt]

Martin Henry H. Stevens <hstevens at muohio.edu> writes:
>Windows 2000, R 1.3.0
>
>I have been given a data set (ASCII tab delimited) in which many variables
>that are supposed to be numeric actually contain characters. I would be
>happy to have those character entries disappear and become NA.

Check out the na.strings parameter to read.table().

Mark

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