[R] combine variables to matrix

[Julian Burgos]

Hi Andre,

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do.  Why you are using 
cbind to join columns of a dataset that it is already in table form?  It 
is true that read.table will give you a data.frame instead of a matrix, 
but if for some reason you need a matrix you can do simply

data.matrix=as.matrix(data)

Julian


Andre Jung wrote:
> I just got stuck with a quite simple question. I've just read in an 
> ASCII table from a plain text file with read.table(). It's a 1200x1200 
> table. R has assigned variables for each column: V1,V2,V3,V4,...
> For small data sets
> 
> data <- read.table("data.txt");
> data.matrix <- cbind(V1,V2,V3);
> 
> works. But how could I put together 1200 columns?
> 
> I've searched the R mailing help and stumbled upon this entry:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-July/137121.html
> which doesn't help me.
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> andre
> 
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