[R] Keeping Leading Zeros, Treating numbers as text

[Jeff Newmiller]

Use the colClasses argument with a vector of character strings naming the types you want each column to have, and specify "character" for your id column.

"James Splinter" <james.r.splinter at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a data set, with some numerical values, some non-numerical data,
>my
>issue is that I need to preserve my ID numbers (numerics) with the
>leading
>zeros, but when I import the data into R (it's in .csv format) using
>the
>read.csv(" ") command, it turns all the ID numbers (Example: 00210)
>into
>numbers, removing the leading zeros, so I end up with 210. I tried
>using the
>"as.is=" command on the column that I wanted to treat as text, but it
>had no
>effect.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated,
>
>Thanks,
>
>James
>
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