is(data$V1) Have a look at the refcard that you can download from cran.r-project.org or please take a look at one of the many other manuals that are provided there for free (many manuals are also available elsewhere on the internet, so you can google them). Almost all of them answer these basic questions. (Sorry for not giving credit to the one who has written the refcard, but it slipped my mind who.)
Also you can type help.search("put your search term here") or RSiteSearch("put your search term here") to check whether your question has been addressed by others before. Cheers. ------------------------- cuncta stricte discussurus ------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chang Liu Gesendet: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:18 PM An: R Help Betreff: [R] type of object of a variable in a data frame Hello! I have used read.csv to read in a data frame, and there are a few variables in it, however, when I tried is.list(data$V1) >FALSE In fact, I have tried, they are not vectors either. I'm wondering: 1. What objects are these "lists" of data? 2. How could I find out about the type/inheritence of an object in general? 3. The reason I want it to be a list or vector, is that I want to fill in some blank values, i can't seem to do things like: data$V1[1] = 3 Is it because these variables are pointers? Is there a better way to do this? Sorry to cram so many questions in one email! Karen _________________________________________________________________ l. Click here to learn how. [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.