Re: [R] how to read numeric vector as factors using read.table.ffdf

2013-05-08 Thread MacQueen, Don
Please read the posting guide. Your question is far from clear. First you're apparently unhappy because character vectors are being converted to factors. Then later you ask how to tell a function that some numeric datas should be considered factors. Which is it that you want? A simple short exampl

[R] how to read numeric vector as factors using read.table.ffdf

2013-05-07 Thread li li
I have a big data set that includes character variables of many different values. I'm trying to use ff to read the data and then use biglm.big.matrix to build linear models. However, since big.matrix will convert all character vectors to factors and the character labels will be lost. I decided to c