Re: [R] problem on using read.csv function

An example would be useful. Look at what is causing what you think are numbers to be interpreted as character strings and therefore being changed to numbers. For example, are there commas in the numbers, are some missing and replaced by some character sequence that represents missing values. You

Re: [R] problem on using read.csv function

Hi Sonia, This suggests that those columns have something in them that is not numeric (e.g., "." to represent missing data, text, etc.). You can avoid them being converted to factor using: read.csv("yourfile.csv", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) however, they will still be character class, not numeri

[R] problem on using read.csv function

Hi, I'm using read.csv to import a table. But sevel columns are changed to factor variables automatically. They are actually numbers not factor levels. Why this happened? How can I get the correct table? Thanks a lot. Sonia [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __