On Oct 23, 2012, at 4:43 PM, BenM wrote: > Hi All, > Thanks in advance for your help. I take this to be a very basic > question, but I'm very new to R. > I'm trying to figure out how to parse an object. I have the following: > >> fileLocation > location > 1 foo.csv > >> fileLocation$location > [1] foo.csv > Levels: foo.csv > > What I want to get back is "foo.csv", as a string. What is the best way to > do this?
It appears to be a factor. Therefore try: as.character(fileLocation$location) And read both ?factor and R-FAQ 7.10 -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
