Mr. Heiberger, Thank you for the insight! I will try out suggestion.
Best, Spencer Brackett On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 6:34 PM Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > I looked at the first file. It gives an option to download as TSV > (tab separated values). > That is the same as CSV except with tabs instead of commas. > You do not need any external software to read it. Read the downloaded > file directly into R. > > read.delim looks as if it would work directly on the downloaded file. > ?read.delim > The notation "\t" means the tab character. > > As an aside, stay away from notepad. it is too naive for almost > anything interesting. > The specific case I often see is people reading linux-style text files > with notepad, which doesn't > understand NL terminated lines. nicely formatted text files become > illegible. > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 6:04 PM Spencer Brackett > <spbracket...@saintjosephhs.com> wrote: > > > > Good evening, > > > > I am attempting to anaylze the protein expression data contained within > > these two ICGC, TCGA datasets (one for GBM and the other for LGG) > > > > *File for GBM protein expression*: > > > https://dcc.icgc.org/search?filters=%7B%22donor%22:%7B%22projectId%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22GBM-US%22%5D%7D,%22availableDataTypes%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22pexp%22%5D%7D%7D%7D > > > > *File for LGG protein expression:* > > > > > > * > https://dcc.icgc.org/search?filters=%7B%22donor%22:%7B%22projectId%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22LGG-US%22%5D%7D,%22availableDataTypes%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22pexp%22%5D%7D%7D%7D > > < > https://dcc.icgc.org/search?filters=%7B%22donor%22:%7B%22projectId%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22LGG-US%22%5D%7D,%22availableDataTypes%22:%7B%22is%22:%5B%22pexp%22%5D%7D%7D%7D > >* > > > > When I tried to transfer the files from .txt (via Notepad) to .csv (via > > Excel), the data appeared in the columns as unorganized and random > > script... not like how a typical csv should be arranged at all. I need > the > > dataset to be converted into .csv in order to analyze it in R, which is > why > > I am hoping someone here might help me in doing that. If not, is there > > perhaps some other way that I could analyze the datatsets on R, which > again > > is downloaded from the dataportal ICGC? > > > > Best, > > > > Spencer Brackett > > > > [[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. > [[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.
