[R] Dealing with factors ???

[Berend Hasselman]

On 16-11-2012, at 03:18, eric wrote:

> The table is much bigger than what was shown. I just displayed a few rows.
> Seems like there should be a better way that the approach you are proposing.
> What is also not clear to me is why the factors are coming at all. I do a
> read.csv on a table full of numbers from excel and I'm seeing factors
> everywhere.
> 


?read.csv

Use the dec argument of read.csv and/or friends to set the decimal separator for the input numbers.

Berend