Re: [R] Error with using windRose function from the open air package

Hi Alexandra, As Jeff mentioned, cbind is probably causing the conversion to factors. One thing I would suggest is keeping the names: windSFO<-data.frame(ws=ws,wd=wd,stn=stn,yearSite=yearSite) as it looks like the windRose function expects the names to be there. If the error persists after using

Re: [R] Error with using windRose function from the open air package

I have no magic answer for you, just some suggestions until you can clarify your problem. Your description of loading one column in at a time is a bit odd... It is much more typical to use one of the read.table variants. Don't use cbind to make data frames. If you have any non-numeric columns t

[R] Error with using windRose function from the open air package

Hello All, I have a data frame called windSFO of four columns, wind speed, wind direction, station number, and date (mmdd). I downloaded the gz data from a site online and then unzipped it using readLines. I then concatenated these four columns from the unzipped data into a dataframe using cb