On 16-11-2012, at 03:18, eric wrote: > The table is much bigger than what was shown. I just displayed a few rows. > Seems like there should be a better way that the approach you are proposing. > What is also not clear to me is why the factors are coming at all. I do a > read.csv on a table full of numbers from excel and I'm seeing factors > everywhere. >
?read.csv Use the dec argument of read.csv and/or friends to set the decimal separator for the input numbers. Berend ______________________________________________ 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.