On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:49:53PM +0000, Inchallah Yarab wrote: > Hi, > > i export data from an csv file like this : > ?Data <- read.csv2("c:/Art.csv",sep=",") # import data into R > > Data <- Data [1:5,1:5]# extracting the first 5 rows and columns > > Data > ? Policy.Number AXA.Entity Country LoB ccy.data > 1???????? 6e+13??????? BNL???? BNL?? P????? EUR > 2???????? 6e+13??????? USA???? BNL?? P????? EUR > 3???????? 6e+13???????? UK???? BNL?? E????? EUR > 4???????? 6e+13??????? USA???? BNL?? P????? EUR > 5???????? 6e+13????????? I???? BNL?? E????? EUR > > > and i want to have in the first column the number 60000000000000 without > using e +13???
I am not sure if this applies to your example, but to me it looks a little like column AXA.Entity is not really a normal number (i.e. meant to ube used in computations) but some kind of ID. In that case, it may be better to enforce a character (or factor) data type for this column when you first read the date (using the colClasses argument to read.table). cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/~pagel/ ______________________________________________ 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.