[R] problem with read.table

[Krishna]

Hi  Mr. Pedro

I tried names(a) and it displayed the names as X, Y and Z.

rgds

snvk

On 8/25/05, Pedro J. Aphalo <pedro.aphalo at cc.jyu.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did you try names(a) so see what are the names of the columns in the
> dataframe?
> 
> Hope this helps a little.
> 
> Pedro.
> 
> Krishna wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > recently i faced an unknown problem while reading the data. Can
> > someone help me in understanding why this happened.
> >
> > I have .txt file containing X, Y, Z variables. I used the command
> >
> >
> >>a <- read.table("filename", header=TRUE)
> >
> > after reading the file i am able to view it by tryping a. but i am
> > unable to access the variables in a, by giving the command a$X.
> >
> >
> >>a$X
> >>NULL
> >
> >
> > this is the output it was showing. However the same i am able to
> > access by giving a[[1]]. i tried changing the mode by issuing command
> > a <- as.data.frame(a). But situation remains the same.
> >
> > look forward for experts suggestion on this.
> >
> > rgds
> >
> > snvk
> >
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