[R] colClasses

[Witold Eryk Wolski]

I would try.
colClasses=c("character","numeric","character","numeric","numeric")

/E

Kalaylioglu, Zeynep (IMS) wrote:

>Hi
>I am trying to read a data frame from a text editor in to R. I want some
>of the columns to be read in as "character" not numeric.
>I figured that I can do that by using "colClasses" in  "read.table"
>command. However, I couldn't find out how to use 
>"colClasses". e.g. say I have 5 column in the data file. I want 1st and
>3rd column to be read in as character. How can I define
>this using colClasses?  (or is there a better way to do what I want?)
> 
>Thanks.
>Zeynep
> 
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