[R] problem with summary of data

[Peter Dalgaard]

"David Barron" <mothsailor at googlemail.com> writes:

> You haven't shown the command you used to input the data, but it looks as
> though you haven't told R not to convert the input into factors. 

Looks even more like R wasn't told that the first line of data was the
variable names. 

> summary on
> factors shows the frequencies of the levels for each variable, which is what
> your output shows.  See ?read.table for how to prevent conversion into
> factors.

And possibly also the Data Import/Export manual.

> On 23/09/06, Nel N. <eeneling at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Greetings everybody,
> > I'm new with R and I'm trying to do some statistical analysis with R using
> > my data.
> > It is a DNA microarray data with 69 samples(row) and 7070 (column)
> > variables. I read the file using the command
> > 'file.table' and it can be done with no error.However, when I tried
> > running
> > a summary of the data, the result was not what I had expected. Below is an
> > extract of the result. And I knew that the command summary will give a
> > summary of a data's descriptive statistics such as it's median,mean,etc.So
> > ,
> > what i want is the statistics summary of each gene (in each column).
> >      V7065          V7066        V7067        V7068            V7069
> > 20     :29   20       :69   117    : 2   39     : 6   20         :69
> > 25     : 4   X16699_at: 1   134    : 2   42     : 4   L49218_f_at: 1
> > 30     : 4                  142    : 2   44     : 4
> > 23     : 3                  170    : 2   46     : 4
> > 26     : 3                  203    : 2   38     : 3
> > 21     : 2                  96     : 2   58     : 3
> > (Other):25                  (Other):58   (Other):46
> >      V7070            V7071
> > 30     : 5   20         :69
> > 21     : 4   Z78285_f_at: 1
> > 51     : 4
> > 64     : 4
> > 27     : 3
> > 36     : 3
> > (Other):47
> > My data is in .dat format. Also, I have downloaded a few .rda files to be
> > tried out with R but how do I view them as data per se, like the .dat file
> > can be viewed and edited using Notepad, how about the .rda files?
> > I express my greatest appreciation all who help.
> > Thank you.
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