Jim,
The "write.table" was simply a diagnostic step.
My problem is that R is automatically adding row_names and then shifting
my column labels over. (The shifting creates a bunch of related problems.)
Thanks for the help.
-Noah
On 8/2/09 2:22 PM, jim holtman wrote:
> try 'row.names=FALSE' in the write.table.
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Noah Silverman<n...@smartmediacorp.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am reading in a dataframe from a CSV file. It has 70 columns. I do
>> not have any kind of unique "row id".
>>
>>
>> rawdata<- read.table("r_work/train_data.csv", header=T, sep=",",
>> na.strings=0)
>>
>> When training an svm, I keep getting an error
>>
>> So, as an experiment, I wrote the data back out to a new file so that I
>> could see what the svm function sees.
>>
>> write.table(rawdata, file="r_work/output_data.csv", quote=FALSE, sep=",")
>>
>>
>> It appears as if R has added a column for me with id numbers for each
>> row. That would be fine, except that R SHIFTS ALL MY COLUMN LABELS OVER
>> ONE. That causes several problems:
>> 1) The header names are now wrong for each column
>> 2) My last column has no label
>> 3) The SVM complains about the unlabeled column
>>
>> Would someone please help me sort this out.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -N
>>
>>
>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
>
>
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________
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.
