You haven't shown the command you used to input the data, but it looks as
though you haven't told R not to convert the input into factors.  summary on
factors shows the frequencies of the levels for each variable, which is what
your output shows.  See ?read.table for how to prevent conversion into
factors.

On 23/09/06, Nel N. <eeneling@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings everybody,
> I'm new with R and I'm trying to do some statistical analysis with R using
> my data.
> It is a DNA microarray data with 69 samples(row) and 7070 (column)
> variables. I read the file using the command
> 'file.table' and it can be done with no error.However, when I tried
> running
> a summary of the data, the result was not what I had expected. Below is an
> extract of the result. And I knew that the command summary will give a
> summary of a data's descriptive statistics such as it's median,mean,etc.So
> ,
> what i want is the statistics summary of each gene (in each column).
>      V7065          V7066        V7067        V7068            V7069
> 20     :29   20       :69   117    : 2   39     : 6   20         :69
> 25     : 4   X16699_at: 1   134    : 2   42     : 4   L49218_f_at: 1
> 30     : 4                  142    : 2   44     : 4
> 23     : 3                  170    : 2   46     : 4
> 26     : 3                  203    : 2   38     : 3
> 21     : 2                  96     : 2   58     : 3
> (Other):25                  (Other):58   (Other):46
>      V7070            V7071
> 30     : 5   20         :69
> 21     : 4   Z78285_f_at: 1
> 51     : 4
> 64     : 4
> 27     : 3
> 36     : 3
> (Other):47
> My data is in .dat format. Also, I have downloaded a few .rda files to be
> tried out with R but how do I view them as data per se, like the .dat file
> can be viewed and edited using Notepad, how about the .rda files?
> I express my greatest appreciation all who help.
> Thank you.
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