Figured it out. Solution:
dat=read.csv(file_path, header=F)
> dat
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7
V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14
V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20
1 0 -0.2404324 0.3554681 -0.21147 1.18128 -0.2279752 0.7483484 -1.049239
0.5660589 -0.1840771 -0.6933892 -0.4749619 -0.5575557 0.3741988 0.5606208
-0.06091273 0.6453374 0.3537118 -0.09991461 -0.3207118
V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26
V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33
V34 V35 V36 V37 V38 V39
1 0.3321949 0.5137949 0.2281249 0.1412501 0.8793599 0.7216529 -1.147237
-0.0871542 0.3021812 0.05944923 -0.2407231 0.3589717 -0.4295433 -0.07399785
-0.1088064 0.6161071 -0.2026699 -0.2004506 0.1542169
V40 V41 V42 V43 V44 V45
V46 V47 V48 V49 V50 V51 V52
V53 V54 V55 V56 V57 V58
1 -0.06293466 1.160775 -0.1009804 -0.4574294 0.1289299 -0.1434428 -1.090505
-0.2702305 -0.4381005 -0.06666691 0.1836706 0.728843 0.2219863 -0.7939716
-0.2580837 0.4604682 -0.6085527 -0.1102456 -0.2470147
V59 V60 V61 V62 V63 V64
V65 V66 V67 V68 V69 V70 V71
V72 V73 V74 V75 V76 V77
1 -0.1374674 0.05771337 0.615591 -0.2103958 0.3729799 -0.7636618 1.222489
1.175414 1.349652 -0.0653956 0.4461732 0.7385489 0.4267874 -0.4099944
-0.4456437 0.1310654 0.5912901 0.03645256 -0.1760742
V78 V79 V80
Thanks,
Ben
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Justin Haynes <jto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Id look at the actual csv file. I assume it has the X there also.
> sounds like a good candidate for some data munging tools first before
> you bring it into R. also ?str of the data would be helpful. My first
> guess is those are all being read as column names. Were they data in
> the data.frame dat the should be quoted:
>
> > dat<-c('X0.0','X.0.24','X0.35','X.0.211')
> > dat
> [1] "X0.0" "X.0.24" "X0.35" "X.0.211"
>
> versus:
>
> > names(dat)<-c('col_one','X.0.44',0.65,'last_col')
> > dat
> col_one X.0.44 0.65 last_col
> "X0.0" "X.0.24" "X0.35" "X.0.211"
>
>
>
> However, if you want to use R to clean it up, I'd use the stringr package.
>
> > library(stringr)
>
> > dat<-str_replace(dat,'X.0.','-0.')
> > dat
> [1] "X0.0" "-0.24" "X0.35" "-0.211"
> > dat<-str_replace(dat,'X','')
> > dat
> [1] "0.0" "-0.24" "0.35" "-0.211"
> > dat<-as.numeric(dat)
> > dat
> [1] 0.000 -0.240 0.350 -0.211
> >
>
> hope that helps,
>
> Justin
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ben quant <ccqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Why do I get preceding "X." (that is a and X followed by a period) for
> > negative numbers and an "X" for positive numbers when I read a csv file?
> Am
> > I stuck with this? If so, how do I convert it to normal numbers?
> >
> > dat=read.csv(file_path)
> >
> >> dat
> > [1] X0.0 X.0.240432350374 X0.355468069625
> > X.0.211469972378 X1.1812797415 X.0.227975150826 X0.74834842067
> > X.1.04923922494 X0.566058942902 X.0.184077147931
> > [11] X.0.693389240029 X.0.474961946724 X.0.557555716654
> > X0.374198813899 X0.560620781209 X.0.0609127295732 X0.645337364133
> > X0.353711785227 X.0.0999146114953 X.0.320711825714
> > [21] X0.332194935294 X0.513794862516 X0.228124868198
> > X0.141250108666 X0.879359879038 X0.721652892103 X.1.14723732497
> > X.0.0871541975062 X0.302181204959 X0.0594492294833
> > [31] X.0.240723094394 X0.358971714966 X.0.42954330242
> > X.0.0739978455876 X.0.108806367787 X0.616107131373 X.0.202669947993
> > X.0.200450609711 X0.15421692014 X.0.0629346641528
> > [41] X1.16077454571 X.0.100980386545 X.0.457429357325
> > X0.128929934631 X.0.143442822494 X.1.09050490567 X.0.270230489547
> > X.0.438100470791 X.0.0666669111547 X0.18367056566
> > [51] X0.728842996177 X0.221986311856 X.0.793971624503
> > X.0.258083713185 X0.460468157809 X.0.608552686527 X.0.11024558138
> > X.0.247014689522 X.0.137467423146 X0.0577133684917
> > [61] X0.615590960098 X.0.210395786553 X0.372979876654
> > X.0.763661795812 X1.22248872639 X1.17541364078 X1.34965201031
> > X.0.0653956005331 X0.446173249776 X0.738548926264
> > [71] X0.426787360705 X.0.409994430265 X.0.445643675958 ....etc...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ben
> >
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