[R] transform a table into a matrix

[John Fox]

Dear Maria,

On 23-Jun-08, at 11:40 PM, Maria Gavilanez wrote:

> Hi.
>
> is there a way to transform a table that has numeric and categorical  
> variables into a matrix?

No, because all of the elements of a matrix must be of the same mode,  
but a dataframe is a data structure that can have heterogeneous  
columns. It's unclear from your question where the "table" is located  
-- in a file perhaps? If so, you can use read.table() to read the data  
into a dataframe.

I hope this helps,
  John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton ON Canada L8S 4M4
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> Maria Mercedes Gavilanez
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