Thanks everyone... the as.character(fileLines[1][1]) solution worked well...


Factors??? the treatment is so far away from what I know.

Cool though...


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
>
>  Consider the following....
>>
>>  fileLines
>>>
>>     V1       V2    V3    V4     V5     V6    V7     V8
>> 1     AB 20091224 156.0 156.0 154.00 154.00    55   1198
>> 2   AB.C 20091224 156.0 156.0 156.00 156.00     0      0
>> 3  ABF10 20091224 156.0 156.0 156.00 156.00    55    444
>>
> .
>
> .
>
>>
>>  attributes (fileLines)
>>>
>> $names
>> [1] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" "V5" "V6" "V7" "V8"
>>
>> $class
>> [1] "data.frame"
>>
>> $row.names
>> [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
>> 24
>> 25
>> [26] 26 27 28 29
>>
>>  fileLines[1,2]
>>>
>> [1] 20091224
>> As expected!
>>
>>  fileLines[1,3]
>>>
>> [1] 156
>> As expected!
>>
>>  fileLines[1,1]
>>>
>> [1] AB
>> 29 Levels: AB AB.C ABF10 ABH10 ABH11 ABH12 ABK10 ABK11 ABN10 ABN11 ... WW
>> Doh!
>>
>> How do I access the "AB" element directly?
>>
>
> You already did access that element directly. You were given a bit more
> information than you expected but the value of fileLines[1,1] is "AB" and
> you were also advised that such value was one of 29 possible values for the
> particular factor set of which it is a member.
>
>
> --
> David
>
>
>> Nick
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