Re: [R] Basic question: Reading in multiple choice question responses to a single column in data frame

2009-08-19 Thread Damion Dooley
s Torfason [mailto:zulutime@gmail.com] Sent: August 19, 2009 12:33 PM To: Damion Dooley Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Basic question: Reading in multiple choice question responses to a single column in data frame Are you looking for something like this? > d = data.frame(a=1:5,b=c("

Re: [R] Basic question: Reading in multiple choice question responses to a single column in data frame

2009-08-19 Thread Damion Dooley
mChoice, which will require further study on my part. Regards, Damion Damion Dooley . LearningPoint.ca Website Technology . 604 877 0304 -Original Message- From: Magnus Torfason [mailto:zulutime@gmail.com] Sent: August 19, 2009 12:33 PM To: Damion Dooley Cc: r-help@r

Re: [R] Basic question: Reading in multiple choice question responses to a single column in data frame

2009-08-19 Thread Damion Dooley
ike "1" into integers and then strsplit fails on them? I was running into this earlier when attempting strsplit directly on column values. Damion -Original Message- From: Magnus Torfason [mailto:zulutime@gmail.com] Sent: August 19, 2009 12:33 PM To: Damion Dooley Cc: r-h

[R] Basic question: Reading in multiple choice question responses to a single column in data frame

2009-08-19 Thread Damion Dooley
I'm using read.delim to successfully read in tab delimited data, but some columns' values are comma seperated, reflecting the fact that user chose a few answers on a multi-select question. I understand that each answer is its own category and so could be represented as a seperate column in the dat