Re: [R] Quick fix formatting

2008-04-07 Thread Richard . Cotton
> I have two data frames and am running a loop to match similar rows. > However the matching is not working well, and I suspect it is because of > the different formats of columns. For example, in col. 1 of dataframe 1 > the nummbers are formatted as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...31 However in col. 1 > dat

Re: [R] Quick fix formatting

2008-04-07 Thread jim holtman
I would guess that your first column is factors. So an 'str' on the dataframe to see what it is made of. You can convert them to numeric: df[[1]] <- as.numeric(as.character(df[[1]])) See if you get any NAs for non-numerics that may be in that column On 4/7/08, Jamie Ledingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED