?read.table
Using my normal file path and th data as you supplied it.
x <- read.csv("/home/john/rdata/ages.csv", sep = " ", header = TRUE)
Change the file path to whatever yours is.
Example might be
x <- read.csv("C:/mydata/ages.csv", sep = " ", header = TRUE)
in Windows.
Note that you can do either Linux style / or use Windows \ but if so you must
escape them so the path would be "C:\\mydata\\ages.csv".
Hope this helps.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dwarnol...@suddenlink.net
> Sent: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Entering Data Files
>
> Hi,
>
> Entering data from a given file is the hardest part of learning R for me.
> For example, I have this datafile from Moore's text:
>
> Live Age Count
> Parents Age19 324
> Another Age19 37
> OwnPlace Age19 116
> Group Age19 58
> Other Age19 5
> Parents Age20 378
> Another Age20 47
> OwnPlace Age20 279
> Group Age20 60
> Other Age20 2
> Parents Age21 337
> Another Age21 40
> OwnPlace Age21 372
> Group Age21 49
> Other Age21 3
> Parents Age22 318
> Another Age22 38
> OwnPlace Age22 487
> Group Age22 25
> Other Age22 9
>
> I can manually enter the numbers and create my table and barplot.
>
> x <- matrix(c(324, 378, 337, 318, 37, 47, 40, 38, 116, 279, 372, 487, 58,
> 60, 49, 25, 5, 2, 3, 9), c(5,4),byrow=T)
> rownames(x)=c("Parents","Another","OwnPlace","Group","Other")
> colnames(x)=c("Age19","Age20","Age21","Age22")
> x <- as.table(x)
>
> barplot(x,beside=T)
>
> But it would be nice to be able to read the data from the file, arrange
> it
> using R, then plot, if that is possible. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
>
>
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