[R] data manipulation

[Yoko Nakajima]

Hello,

may I ask a further question?

I have realized that "data <-
matrix(scan("file-name"), ncol=29)" will read the data differently than I
thought, i.e., (4,1) is the first column,  (17,1) is the second column, and
(1,1) is the third and so on by this code - please see the data below.
Therefore, the data set I have would not be in order if I used this code.

It needed to be read as: (4.4) first column, (1,1) the second column, and
(17, 17) is the third and so on (i.e., from 4 to 0.5611 makes the first row
and another 4 to 0.5611 makes the second row and so on). So,

V1 V2 V3 ...     V29
4    1    17   ...  0.5611
4    1    17   ...  0.5611

was needed.

(Now I have ,
V1 V2 V3  ....         V29
4    17   1           ...  0.6578
1    1   -5.1536  ...   0.5611)


[The data set I have may have around 1000 sets of them (29 variables times
around 1000 sets of these 29 variables). I only paste here two sets of
them.]
4 1 17 1 1
-5.1536 -0.1668 -2.3412 -0.5062  0.9621  0.3640  0.3678
-0.5081 -0.2227
0.8142 -0.0389 -0.0445 -0.0578 -0.1175 -0.1232  0.8673
-0.1033 -0.0796
-0.0341 -0.1716 -0.1801 -0.7014  0.6578  0.5611

4 1 17 2 1
-5.1536 -0.1668 -2.3412 -0.5062  0.9621  0.3640  0.3678
-0.5081 -0.2227
0.8142 -0.0389 -0.0445 -0.0578 -0.1175 -0.1232  0.8673
-0.1033 -0.0796
-0.0341 -0.1716 -0.1801 -0.7014  0.6578  0.5611



I need 29 columns. This is true. But the data was read differently by
"ncol=29". Is there any way I can handle this problem by R?

I would very appreciate it if you could let me know. My guess is that I
should probably rearrange the data set  by excel etc.. I have used
"data.entry(data)" and found this. I can not analyze this data set.

Thank you very much, in advance.
Sincerely,
Yoko.