To known the format of your object, please use class(Data) str(Data) Be sure to have regular space between strings in your file.txt. Karim
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@univ-reims.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen this question a few days/weeks ago... > > Data.frames are special list, so it's normal. > Read the help for read.table(), especially the "value" section (where the > output of the function is described). And read also some introductory > material, where the different data types are explained. > > HTH, > Ivan > > -- > Ivan Calandra, PhD > University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne > GEGENAA - EA 3795 > CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros > 51100 Reims, France > +33(0)3 26 77 36 89 > ivan.calan...@univ-reims.fr > -- > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra > https://publons.com/author/705639/ > > > Le 27/02/2016 15:04, asma.r...@gmail.com a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> I read data from file as follows >> >> Data<-read.table("file.txt",header=T,sep="\t") >> >> mode(Data) >> list >> >> I want to convert data to data frame, I tried the following: >> >> as.data.frame(Data) >> data.frame(Data) >> >> But the Data did not change >> >> When I tried >> as.data.frame(unlist(Data)) >> >> The Data converted to a vector not to a data frame. Any idea ? >> >> Thank you in advance >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.