Hi all, As of now, I have a 15x8 matrix (name is "asdf"). The first seven columns contain numbers while the last column contains a string. The class of each column is "character". When I use the plot function to display a scatter plot between any of the two columns, ie. plot(asdf[, 1], asdf[, 2]) everything works fine. However, if I want to use the command "pairs" to show all combination of scatter plots between the first seven columns (without the columns of strings), it gives me a error message telling me that I'm passing a non-numeric arguement to 'pairs'.
As a result, I changed the original matrix into a dataframe via. as.data.frame(asdf) so the columns are of the class "factor". However, when I now utilize the pairs command to plot the scatterplots of the first seven columns, the scatterplots are totally off. I think that the pairs command changes all the factor columns into numeric columns - and by performing this class transformation, the values within each column are also physically changed. I'm just really lost. Is there a way to utilize the pairs command in my setting? Or is there a method to change the class of each column without physically altering the values? Anyways, thanks in advance!!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Question-regarding-dataframes%2C-matrix%2C-frame%2C-etc...-tp24056147p24056147.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
