Hi, Couldn't reproduce your error. It is better to dput() the example data:
v <- read.table("/home/tiago/matrix.txt", header=FALSE) dput(v) v<- read.table("matrix1.txt",header=FALSE,sep="") v<-as.matrix(v) v # V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 #[1,] 1.00000000 -0.89847480 -0.73929292 -0.99055335 -0.04514469 0.04056137 #[2,] -0.89847480 1.00000000 0.95986852 0.82978466 0.04056137 -0.04514469 #[3,] -0.73929292 0.95986852 1.00000000 0.63996937 0.03337515 -0.04333297 #[4,] -0.99055335 0.82978466 0.63996937 1.00000000 0.04471823 -0.03746038 #[5,] -0.04514469 0.04056137 0.03337515 0.04471823 1.00000000 -0.89847480 #[6,] 0.04056137 -0.04514469 -0.04333297 -0.03746038 -0.89847480 1.00000000 #[7,] -0.60519045 0.67357531 0.64654374 0.55892246 -0.06244832 0.06950480 # V7 #[1,] -0.60519045 #[2,] 0.67357531 #[3,] 0.64654374 #[4,] 0.55892246 #[5,] -0.06244832 #[6,] 0.06950480 #[7,] 1.00000000 str(v) # num [1:7, 1:7] 1 -0.8985 -0.7393 -0.9906 -0.0451 ... #- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 #..$ : NULL #..$ : chr [1:7] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ... #or v2<- read.table(text=" 1.00000000 -0.89847480 -0.73929292 -0.99055335 -0.04514469 0.04056137 -0.60519045 -0.89847480 1.00000000 0.95986852 0.82978466 0.04056137 -0.04514469 0.67357531 -0.73929292 0.95986852 1.00000000 0.63996937 0.03337515 -0.04333297 0.64654374 -0.99055335 0.82978466 0.63996937 1.00000000 0.04471823 -0.03746038 0.55892246 -0.04514469 0.04056137 0.03337515 0.04471823 1.00000000 -0.89847480 -0.06244832 0.04056137 -0.04514469 -0.04333297 -0.03746038 -0.89847480 1.00000000 0.06950480 -0.60519045 0.67357531 0.64654374 0.55892246 -0.06244832 0.06950480 1.00000000 ",sep="",header=FALSE) v2<- as.matrix(v2) identical(v,v2) #[1] TRUE sessionInfo() R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] ggplot2_0.9.3.1 plyr_1.8 zoo_1.7-9 stringr_0.6.2 [5] reshape2_1.2.2 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] colorspace_1.2-2 dichromat_2.0-0 digest_0.6.3 grid_3.0.0 [5] gtable_0.1.2 labeling_0.1 lattice_0.20-15 MASS_7.3-26 [9] munsell_0.4 proto_0.3-10 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 scales_0.2.3 A.K. Hello Rlisters! In my codes, I need to import a matrix: v <- read.table("/home/tiago/matrix.txt", header=FALSE) v<-as.matrix(v) v V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 [1,] 1.00000000 -0.89847480 -0.73929292 -0.99055335 -0.04514469 0.04056137 [2,] -0.89847480 1.00000000 0.95986852 0.82978466 0.04056137 -0.04514469 [3,] -0.73929292 0.95986852 1.00000000 0.63996937 0.03337515 -0.04333297 [4,] -0.99055335 0.82978466 0.63996937 1.00000000 0.04471823 -0.03746038 [5,] -0.04514469 0.04056137 0.03337515 0.04471823 1.00000000 -0.89847480 [6,] 0.04056137 -0.04514469 -0.04333297 -0.03746038 -0.89847480 1.00000000 [7,] -0.60519045 0.67357531 0.64654374 0.55892246 -0.06244832 0.06950480 V7 [1,] -0.60519045 [2,] 0.67357531 [3,] 0.64654374 [4,] 0.55892246 [5,] -0.06244832 [6,] 0.06950480 [7,] 1.00000000 However, I keep getting the same error after loading that matrix: `v' is not a covariance matrix Nonetheless, if I input the matrix directly, there is no error: x1 = c(1, -0.898474804259413, -0.739292919198965, -0.990553354617789, -0.0451446949071635, 0.0405613709200646, -0.605190448449146) x2 = c(-0.89847480425931, 1, 0.959868518981255, 0.829784658203916, 0.0405613709200599, -0.0451446949071635, 0.673575314054563) x3 = c(-0.739292919198939, 0.959868518981239, 1, 0.639969373426519, 0.0333751532842623, -0.0433329714403989, 0.646543739123876) x4 = c(-0.990553354617685, 0.82978465820392, 0.639969373426531, 1, 0.0447182289834827, -0.0374603752332609, 0.558922461747364) x5 = c(-0.0451446949071635, 0.0405613709200646, 0.0333751532842635, 0.0447182289834874, 1, -0.898474804259413, -0.0624483157850655) x6 = c(0.0405613709200679, -0.0451446949071635, -0.0433329714403999,-0.0374603752332612,-0.898474804259486,1,0.0695048046856916) x7 = c(-0.605190448449077, 0.673575314054563, 0.646543739123887, 0.558922461747361, -0.0624483157850583, 0.0695048046856916, 1) v <- rbind(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6,x7) row.names(v)<-NULL v [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 1.00000000 -0.89847480 -0.73929292 -0.99055335 -0.04514469 0.04056137 [2,] -0.89847480 1.00000000 0.95986852 0.82978466 0.04056137 -0.04514469 [3,] -0.73929292 0.95986852 1.00000000 0.63996937 0.03337515 -0.04333297 [4,] -0.99055335 0.82978466 0.63996937 1.00000000 0.04471823 -0.03746038 [5,] -0.04514469 0.04056137 0.03337515 0.04471823 1.00000000 -0.89847480 [6,] 0.04056137 -0.04514469 -0.04333297 -0.03746038 -0.89847480 1.00000000 [7,] -0.60519045 0.67357531 0.64654374 0.55892246 -0.06244832 0.06950480 [,7] [1,] -0.60519045 [2,] 0.67357531 [3,] 0.64654374 [4,] 0.55892246 [5,] -0.06244832 [6,] 0.06950480 [7,] 1.00000000 How can one import the data correctly? I could not figure it out. Thanks in advance. Tiago ______________________________________________ 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.