Thanks for the response Erik. In this case, I would like to keep the row name as the month. How would I do that?
Thanks, Jason On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote: > On 10/24/2010 04:57 PM, Jason Kwok wrote: > >> I'm trying to import a CSV file into R and when it gets imported, the >> entries get numbered down the left side. How do I get rid of that? >> > > When you imported the CSV file into R, an object of class data.frame > was created, and since you did not assign it to a variable name, > (e.g., df1 <- read.csv(...) ), the object got printed. > > A data.frame object is going to have a row.names attribute by definition, > which is what you're seeing. > > In ?data.frame, we see documentation for the "row.names" argument: > > If row.names was supplied as NULL > or no suitable component was found the row names are the integer > sequence starting at one (and such row names are considered to be > automatic, and not preserved by as.matrix). > > The method that prints out a data.frame is called print.data.frame, > and it does have an argument to suppress printing of the row.names. > > The question is, why do you not want row.names? Are they just > distracting you when printed, or is there some reason not to > carry them along in the object? > > --Erik > > > >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> *> read.csv(file="C:\\Program Files\\R\\Test Data\\sales.csv",head=TRUE) >> Month Sales >> 1 January 422 >> 2 February 151 >> 3 March 451 >> 4 April 175 >> 5 May 131 >> 6 June 307 >> 7 July 47 >> 8 August 12 >> 9 September 488 >> 10 October 122 >> 11 November 54 >> 12 December 244 >> >>> * >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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