Do an 'str' on your data so that we see what it contains. It may appear to be numbers, but they might also be factors as a result of the read.table.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Adrian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have a tab delim file with 100 rows and 100 columns. > > I have numerical values in this table. What I want is to create an image > color map with color gradation. > > my values range from -5 to 0. max value is 0. > > to acheive this, I need to convert my data.frame into matrix. > > I tried following : > > mydf <- read.table('mytable',sep='\t',header=T) > mydf1 <- mydf[,2:100] > colnames(mydf1) <- as.character(mydf[,1]) > > here comes the trouble: > > mymat <- as.matrix(mydf1) > > -- numerical values become character values. -1 becomes "-1" > > mymat <- data.matrix(mydf1) > > -- whole matrix is filled with 1,2 and 3. > > Is there any other way I can do this. > > say row names are city schools > colnames are student names > > appreciate your help. > > Thanks > AJ > > [[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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.