[R] Importing Data.

[Roger Peng]

Try 

> m <- matrix(scan("filename", sep = ","), byrow = T, ncol = 2)

This will read the file and store in a m x 2 matrix.

-roger
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Jason C. Leach wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I'm a bit new to R and need a hand importing data.
> I have a text file of (x,y) pairs like:
> 
> x,y
> x,y
> x,y
> 
> I can read them in fine with read.table(), but I need to do some 
> cluster analysis on them, so I need it in a format cclust will
> understand, namely a Matrix.  Can anyone help with the code to
> to convert the data type?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> j.
> 
> 
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