[R] How to read numeric as text

[Ista Zahn]

See

?read.csv

and read the part about colClasses.


> X <- read.csv(textConnection("x1 ,x2,x3
+ 10,20,30
+ 11 ,22,35"), colClasses = c("character", "character", "numeric")
+ )
> str(X)
'data.frame':   2 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ x1: chr  "10" "11 "
 $ x2: chr  "20" "22"
 $ x3: num  30 35
>

-Ista

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA}
<SATISH.VADLAMANI at fritolay.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> If I want to read a file with read.table. I want x1 and x2 to be read as character and x3 as numeric. How to do this? Thanks.
> Satish
>
>
> x1 ,x2,x3
> 10,20,30
> 11 ,22,35
>
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