[R] read a file into a matrix

[Benilton Carvalho]

I can't think of anything that is already built in.

But you can always:

read.as.matrix <- function(...) as.matrix(read.delim(...))

and now you get one step only ;-)

b

On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can  
>>> return
>>> the result in a matrix rather than data.frame?
>>
>> m <- as.matrix(read.delim(..))
>
> I knew this approach. But this takes an extra step. Is there a command
> that read a file directly into a matrix?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
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