Hi,

I would like to store some text and decimal values in the following  
form:

name	dec.val	dec.val	...	dec.val
name	dec.val	dec.val	...	dec.val
...
name	dec. val 	dec.val	...	dec.val

To do so, I created a matrix of the necessary size (x row per y cols)  
with the command

matrixname <- matrix(0,x,y)

and proceeded to fill in the matrix with information drawn from a  
data frame.

The problem is that the resulting matrix only has integers at the end  
of the filling process.

When I ask:
class(dataframename[i,j])
The answer is "factor"

What is the best way of solving the problem. Should I use a data  
structure other than a matrix? Or should I make the elements be a  
different class (other than "factor") when I assign them to the matrix?

Thanks for any help!

G.






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