[R] about data problem

[lily li]

Yes, it is stored as factor. I can't check out any problem in the original
data. Reread data doesn't help either. I use read.csv to read in the data,
do you think it is better to use read.table? Thanks again.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This indicates that your Discharge column has been stored/converted as
> a factor (run str(df) to verify and check other columns).  This
> usually happens when functions like read.table are left to try to
> figure out what each column is and it finds something in that column
> that cannot be converted to a number (possibly an oh instead of a
> zero, an el instead of a one, or just a letter or punctuation mark
> accidentally in the file).  You can either find the error in your
> original data, fix it, and reread the data, or specify that the column
> should be numeric using the colClasses argument to read.table or other
> function.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi R users,
> >
> > I have a problem in reading data.
> > For example, part of my dataframe is like this:
> >
> > df
> > month day year          Discharge
> >    3        1   2010                6.4
> >    3        2   2010               7.58
> >    3        3   2010               6.82
> >    3        4   2010               8.63
> >    3        5   2010               8.16
> >    3        6   2010               7.58
> >
> > Then if I type summary(df), why it converts the discharge data to
> levels? I
> > also met the same problem when reading some other csv files. How to solve
> > this problem? Thanks.
> >
> > Discharge
> > 7.58     :2
> > 6.4       :1
> > 6.82     :1
> > 8.63     :1
> > 8.16     :1
> >
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