On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Ravi Varadhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a data file, certain lines of which are character fields. I would > like to skip these rows, and read the data file as a numeric data frame. I > know that I can skip lines at the beginning with read.table and scan, but is > there a way to skip a specified sequence of lines (e.g., 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, > 20, 28, 29, etc.) ? > > If I read the entire data file, and then delete the character fields, the > values are still kept as factors, with each value denoted by its level. > Since, I have continuous variables, there are as many levels as there are > values. I am unable to coerce this to "numeric" mode. Is there a way to do > this so that I can then manipulate the numeric data frame?
Read the entire data file to the data frame mydata, and then delete the character fields. Afterwards, mydata <- edit(mydata) and, inside edit, coerce the columns that you want to numeric. Paul ______________________________________________ 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.
