[R] Reading Numeric Data -- Trivial Question

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Alex K
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:26 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Reading Numeric Data -- Trivial Question
> 
> 
> On 5/20/05, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> > Alex K wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >    I am very new to R, and this is certainly and uber-newby 
> > > question:
> > >
> > >    I am trying to read a vector of numeric data that contains the 
> > > log of daily DJI returns and simply plot a histogram of it.
> > >
> > >    The data I have is in a text file format, on each line 
> a number 
> > > represents the log of the returns of one day.
> > >
> > >    I have problems in reading this in a vector numeric format.
> > >
> > > If I try
> > >
> > > retr<- as.numeric(read.table("logDJI.TXT", header=FALSE, sep="", 
> > > dec="." ));
> > 
> > 
> > read.table() returns a data.frame, as the docs point out, but 
> > as.numeric expects a vector.
> > 
> > Either extract the first (and only?) column or read the data using 
> > scan(), if there is really only one column.
> > 
> > Uwe Ligges
> 
>   Hi Uwe, thank you for the reply.
> 
>   How do I extract only the colum?
> 
> The text file looks like:
> "-0.000948343416257784
> 0.00181733586025109
> 0
> 0.0108130251220595"
> 
> except is has about 2200 entries (numbers) instead of just 
> four as above.
> 
> Thank you again,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > I get:
> > > " Error in as.double.default(read.table("logDJIm.TXT", header = 
> > > FALSE, sep = "",  :
> > >         (list) object cannot be coerced to 'double'"
> > >
> > > and when I try to plot:
> > >
> > >  plot(density(retr, width=.004), type="l", xlab="y", ylab="pdf");
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > "Error in density(retr, width = 0.004) : argument 'x' must be 
> > > numeric"
> > >
> > >   If I try:
> > >
> > > retr<- as.data.frame(read.table("logDJI.TXT", 
> header=FALSE, sep="", 
> > > dec="." ));
> > >
> > > I get no reading or conversion error, but I get the same 
> error when 
> > > I try to plot as above.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help with this?
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance,
> > > Alex
> > >
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