[R] Read.Table Reading a Text file

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

you really should spend some time to go through introductory 
documentation and do some examples provided.

<snip>

On 8 Oct 2004 at 3:15, Kunal Shetty wrote:

you probably read it by read.table without saying/specifying 
header=TRUE so your X and y is included to your data not as 
names but as values. Therefore V1 and V2 are factors.

Please consult especially R-intro manual in doc directory. It helps 
you to save a lot of frustration and misunderstanding, especially at 
the begging of your work with R. 

And consider help list as a last source of help as what you have 
learned yourself you remember better and you understand better.

Cheers
Petr

 
> > 
> >    V1  V2
> > 1  X    y
> > 2  8    10
> > 3 11   1 4
> > 4 16   16
> > 5 18   15
> > 6  6    20
> > 7  4     4
> > 8 20   18
> > 9 25    22
> > 
> > 
> > and I want to access V1  values.....
> > 
> > 
> > thank you
> > regards
> > Kunal
> > 
> > 
> > james.holtman at convergys.com wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If you have an unequal number of columns, then use 'fill=T'
> > > onread.table
> > >
> > > It putsNAs.
> > >
> > > Is this what youwant?
> > >
> > > Here is what happens on the input file which is your data and
> > > someextra
> > >columns:
> > >
> > > 8           10
> > > 11          14
> > > 16          16
> > > 18           15  12
> > > 6           20
> > > 4            4  12
> > > 20          18
> > >
> > >
> > > > x.1 <- read.table('/tempxx.txt',fill=T)
> > > >x.1
> > >    X8X10
> > > 11 14 NA
> > > 16 16 NA
> > > 18 15 12
> > > 6  20 NA
> > > 4   4 12
> > > 20 18 NA
> > >__________________________________________________________
> > > James Holtman        "What is the problem you are trying tosolve?"
> > > Executive Technical Consultant  --  Office of Technology,Convergys
> > >james.holtman at convergys.com
> > > +1 (513)723-2929
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > KunalShetty
> > > <kshe4 at student.monash To:r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > .edu>cc:
> > > Sent by: Subject: [R] Read.Table Reading a Textfile
> > >r-help-bounces at stat.m
> > >ath.ethz.ch
> > >
> > >
> > > 10/07/200416:18
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear R users andHelpers
> > >
> > > I am beginner with using R and interested in carrying out
> > > certaintask
> > >for
> > > my statisticalresearch.
> > > I am reading data for a text file, which could contain data
> > > infollowing
> > >pattern
> > >
> > > x           y
> > > 8           10
> > > 11          14
> > > 16          16
> > > 18          15
> > > 6           20
> > > 4           4
> > > 20          18
> > >
> > > As per the example I have two columns and 7 rows of data ineach.
> > > However is real life data situation I may not know how many
> > > columnsare present and how rows are present  and also with the
> > > certain datais missing. Yes I am assuming the data is delimited
> > > myTab.
> > >
> > >
> > > My question or rather problem is I want read data from each colum
> > > saycol
> > >x
> > > (8,11,16,18âEURŒ.20) and store it into a variable so that I
> > > couldperform
> > >some
> > > operations onthem.
> > >
> > > I have also looked into certain R-help for Read.table and
> > > data.framebut still struggling on my requirement. Theyare
> > >
> > >http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/07/2040.html
> > >http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/07/3152.html
> > >
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Kunal
> > >
> > >______________________________________________
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Petr Pikal
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