Is this what you want to do:  this will remove the commas and convert to numeric


> x <- read.csv("C:\\jph\\indicatorgapminderpopulation.csv"
+             , as.is = TRUE
+             , check.names = FALSE
+             )
>
> # convert to numeric column 2+
> for (i in 2:ncol(x)){
+     x[, i] <- as.numeric(gsub(",", "", x[, i]))
+ }
>     str(x)
'data.frame':   259 obs. of  233 variables:
 $ Total population: chr  "Abkhazia" "Afghanistan" "Akrotiri and
Dhekelia" "Albania" ...
 $ 1700            : num  NA NA NA 300000 1750000 ...
 $ 1730            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1750            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1785            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1786            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1787            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1788            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1789            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1790            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1791            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1792            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1793            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1794            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1795            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1796            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1797            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1798            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1799            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
 $ 1800            : num  NA 3280000 3710 410445 2503218 ...
 $ 1801            : num  NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, gaja <gajahor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanx for posting. :)
>
> I'm posting a link to excel file, same as I want import to table.
> Its dl link, don't be mad, hehe
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ&output=csv
>
> Thanx,G.
>
>
> ps: @Michael Weylandt;
> Thanx for your code,... I tried to used it, but unsucsesfully. I really
> don't know what the "x" stands for.
>
> I hope I will be able to solve this problem.
> Gaja
>
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