Steve Murray wrote:
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Bill=2C
It seems to be 'character' - odd...!
Not really very "odd". I'll wager that your data was
originally recorded in Excel or equivalent and that
the column for 'latitude' was in 'general' format,
which is MS's default and which very few Excel users
seem to take the trouble to change to 'number' format.
I'll further wager that somewhere in that column you
have a non-number entry such as 'nil', '51..345' or
even 'could not be measured because ...'. Don't laugh,
I've see all of these and many more. That's why it's
critical to issue a str(mydata) right after any data
import.
Cheers,
Peter Ehlers
str(int1901$Latitude)
=A0chr [1:61537] "5.75" "6.25" "6.75" "7.25" "7.75" "8.25" ...
Thanks again=2C
Steve
What does str(int1901) show to be the type for Latitude? (I'm guessing
it's a factor.)
--
David Winsemius=2C MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford=2C CT
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