Re: [R] matrix not working

2011-05-26 Thread Bert Gunter
Please... ?"[" Online tutorial "An Introduction to R." I think you'll find everything you need in these. -- Bert On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dat Mai wrote: > When I use the as.matrix, the data.frame does turn into a matrix, but I > cannot change the dimensions of the matrix. I'd still

Re: [R] matrix not working

2011-05-26 Thread Dat Mai
When I use the as.matrix, the data.frame does turn into a matrix, but I cannot change the dimensions of the matrix. I'd still want it to have that pseudo cartesian format (e.g. [a1,b1], [a2,b2]) On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:58 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On May 26, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Andy Zhu wrot

Re: [R] matrix not working

2011-05-26 Thread David Winsemius
On May 26, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Andy Zhu wrote: Dat: 1. you can use as.matrix to convert data.frame to matrix; 2. it is likely that the internal representation of your data.frame may not be numerical value; matrix can only take on numeric. Not true. Can be any single mode, including "charac

Re: [R] matrix not working

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Zhu
Dat: 1. you can use as.matrix to convert data.frame to matrix; 2. it is likely that the internal representation of your data.frame may not be numerical value; matrix can only take on numeric. --- On Thu, 5/26/11, Dat Mai wrote: From: Dat Mai Subject: [R] matrix not working To: r-help@r-pro