Agreed Peter: weird. What is the purpose of your inquiry SK? And why is your 
inquiry so similar to the one at the hyperlink I provided? 

Scott
On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM, P Ehlers wrote: 
> Scott Chamberlain wrote:
> > This thread seems freakishly similar to what you are asking....Scott
> 
> Even to the point of including the same typo as well as proof
> that neither poster bothered to read the posting guide.
> 
> Great spot, Scott!
> 
> Peter Ehlers
> 
> > 
> > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/07/30127.html
> > On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7:43 AM, SK MAIDUL HAQUE wrote: 
> > >  I have a text file that I have imported into R. It contains 3 columns and
> > > 316940 rows. The first column is vegetation plot ID, the second species
> > > names and the third is a cover value (numeric). I imported using the
> > > read.table function.
> > > 
> > > My problem is this. I need to reformat the information as a matrix, with 
> > > the
> > > first column becoming the row labels and the second the column labels and
> > > the cover values as the matrix cell data. However, since the
> > > read.tablefunction imported the data as an indexed data frame, I can't use
> > > the columns
> > > as vectors. Is there a way around this, to convert the data frame as 3
> > > separate vectors? I have been looking all over for a function, and my
> > > programming skills are not great.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Sk Maidul Haque
> > > Scientific Officer-C
> > > Applied Spectroscopy Division
> > > Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Vizag
> > > 
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> > > 
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