Arrays must all be the same type. Data frame columns may be of differing types. Try to avoid creating a matrix and converting it to a data frame.
a<- data.frame(name=c(2,2,"X"), value=c(,1:3,2:4), as.is=TRUE) str(a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Joshua Budman <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, >I am trying to process genomics data and the presence of both >characters and integers in an array is giving issues. The following is > >an example: > > a<-array(c(2,2,"X",1:3,2:4),dim=c(3,3)) > > b<-cbind(a[,1],a[,2]) >With the output being: > [,1] [,2] >[1,] "2" "1" >[2,] "2" "2" >[3,] "X" "3" > >Is there any way for me to remove the quotation marks from every >integer/character in the new array? Or, is there a way to create the >new array without getting the quotation marks? > >Regards, >Josh > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] 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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
