Adrian Johnson 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 > Hi Adrian, Have you looked at color2d.matplot in the plotrix package?
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