Hi Andre, I don't quite understand what you are trying to do. Why you are using cbind to join columns of a dataset that it is already in table form? It is true that read.table will give you a data.frame instead of a matrix, but if for some reason you need a matrix you can do simply
data.matrix=as.matrix(data) Julian Andre Jung wrote: > I just got stuck with a quite simple question. I've just read in an > ASCII table from a plain text file with read.table(). It's a 1200x1200 > table. R has assigned variables for each column: V1,V2,V3,V4,... > For small data sets > > data <- read.table("data.txt"); > data.matrix <- cbind(V1,V2,V3); > > works. But how could I put together 1200 columns? > > I've searched the R mailing help and stumbled upon this entry: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-July/137121.html > which doesn't help me. > > thanks for your help. > > andre > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.