[R] Simple numeric "as.is" question

[Liaw, Andy]

If read.table() is not recognizing the data as numeric, there's probably
something in the content that confused read.table().  You can try using 

x <- scan("clipboard") 

instead and see if and how it chokes.

Andy

> From: Janet Gannon
> 
> I am reading a list of numbers from my clipboard, and have been 
> successful, except I can't make a histogram as R doesn't recognize my 
> variable as numeric.  I know I need to use "as.is", but the specifics 
> escape me. 
> 
> I have used x<-read.table("clipboard", header=F) to import from a txt 
> file.  How do make this numeric?  Thanks, J.
> 
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