On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Robert Ruser <robert.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > a2 a should get the values.
Lists are a nice way to allow variable data (e.g., vectors, data frames, matrices, etc. all of different sizes) but still group related things (such as data from a single file) together, kind of like putting all your vegetables on one shelf of your fridge and all your drinks on another. If you really just want everything tossed in the fridge (as it were), Dennis provided an option. > Do you know how to read file 2 into R? Hmm, it is difficult to say precisely without the actual file, but it sounds like you should look at: ?readLines You may need to do some additional processing if you get the data in with readLines (I think it pulls everything in as character data, so you might need to split each row and convert to numeric or integer. See ?strsplit for one way to split data, ?as.numeric, ?as.integer for potential conversions). Usually for reading in data I try (in this order because read.table() is generally much easier to use than readLines or scan): read.table(), readLines(), and if all else fails, scan() HTH, Josh [snip] -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
