I am not exactly sure what you are after, but if you are just printing out a single column, then unless you use "drop=FALSE" in referencing it, it is a vector:
> x <- read.table(textConnection("#GDS_ID GENE_NAME GENE_DESCRIPTION > GENE_FUNCTION + 1007_s_at | DDR1 | discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 | protein-coding + 1053_at | RFC2 | replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa | protein-coding + 117_at | HSPA6 | heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') | protein-coding"), sep="|", quote='') > closeAllConnections() > str(x) 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 4 variables: $ V1: Factor w/ 3 levels "1007_s_at ","1053_at ",..: 1 2 3 $ V2: Factor w/ 3 levels " DDR1 "," HSPA6 ",..: 1 3 2 $ V3: Factor w/ 3 levels " discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 ",..: 1 3 2 $ V4: Factor w/ 1 level " protein-coding": 1 1 1 > print(x$V3) [1] discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa [3] heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') 3 Levels: discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 ... replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa > x$V3 [1] discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa [3] heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') 3 Levels: discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 ... replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa > x[, "V3", drop=FALSE] # is this what you were expecting V3 1 discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 2 replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa 3 heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks so much Jim, > > It works. However how come the "\n" was not removed. > Meaning when I do: > > print (x$V3) > > it gives something like this: > __OUTPUT__ > [1] discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 > > [2] replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa > > [3] heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') > > __END__ > > Note the spacing between the entries. I expect something like: > > [1] discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 > [2] replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa > [3] heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') > __END__ > > Do you have any idea how to fix this? > > > > - Gundala Viswanath > Jakarta - Indonesia > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:19 AM, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does this give you what you want: >> >>> x <- read.table(textConnection("#GDS_ID GENE_NAME GENE_DESCRIPTION >>> GENE_FUNCTION >> + 1007_s_at | DDR1 | discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 | >> protein-coding >> + 1053_at | RFC2 | replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa | >> protein-coding >> + 117_at | HSPA6 | heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') | >> protein-coding"), sep="|", quote='') >>> closeAllConnections() >>> >>> x >> V1 V2 V3 >> V4 >> 1 1007_s_at DDR1 discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 >> protein-coding >> 2 1053_at RFC2 replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa >> protein-coding >> 3 117_at HSPA6 heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') >> protein-coding >>> >> >> >> You had a quote(') in your data; you need to have quote='' in the read.table. >> >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have the following data file to be parsed and captured as a data frame: >>> >>> __DATA__ >>> #GDS_ID GENE_NAME GENE_DESCRIPTION GENE_FUNCTION >>> 1007_s_at | DDR1 | discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 | >>> protein-coding >>> 1053_at | RFC2 | replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa | >>> protein-coding >>> 117_at | HSPA6 | heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') | protein-coding >>> >>> __END__ >>> >>> In particular it is separated by " | " , namely - space, bar, space. >>> However I tried this without avail: >>> >>> geneinfo <- read.table("mydata.txt", sep=" | ", comment.char="\#") >>> print(geneinfo) >>> >>> I also tried with sep= "|", it gave a wrong parsing. Please advice. >>> >>> - Gundala Viswanath >>> Jakarta - Indonesia >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Holtman >> Cincinnati, OH >> +1 513 646 9390 >> >> What is the problem you are trying to solve? >> > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.