Hi, myData[]<-lapply(myData,as.character) as.matrix(myData) # V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 #[1,] "a" "b" "c" "d" "f" #[2,] "2" "4" "" "" "7" #[3,] "" "" "" "" "" #[4,] "" "34" "" "4" "" #[5,] "2" "" "4" "" "4"
str(as.matrix(myData)) # chr [1:5, 1:5] "a" "2" "" "" "2" "b" "4" "" "34" "" ... #- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 #..$ : NULL #..$ : chr [1:5] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ... A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:00 PM Subject: [R] Loading data into R Hello again, I generally use Clipboard to load data into R from Excel using the read.delim() function. In most cases, my data after loading looks like below: myData <- structure(list(V1 = structure(c(3L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "2", "a"), class = "factor"), V2 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("", "34", "4", "b"), class = "factor"), V3 = structure(c(3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "4", "c"), class = "factor"), V4 = structure(c(3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("", "4", "d"), class = "factor"), V5 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "4", "7", "f"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("V1", "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -5L)) > myData V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 a b c d f 2 2 4 7 3 4 34 4 5 2 4 4 Now I want to put this data in a Matrix class with all elements are character. So tried this : > as.character(myData) [1] "c(3, 2, 1, 1, 2)" "c(4, 3, 1, 2, 1)" "c(3, 1, 1, 1, 2)" "c(3, 1, 1, 2, 1)" "c(4, 3, 1, 1, 2)" This looks funny and does not conform the original data. Can somebody point me what would be right way to put it into Matrix? Thanks and regards, ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.