[R] Simple numeric "as.is" question

[Timur Elzhov]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:04:05AM -0500, Janet Gannon wrote:

> 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.

x <- read.table("clipboard", header=F)
x <- as.data.frame(lapply(x, as.numeric))

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WBR,
Timur