Dear all; Thanks. Here are the dput results as Duncan suggested.
Regards, Greg structure(list(Sub_Pathways = structure(c(3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("Acetylated_Peptides", "Advanced_Glycation_End-product", "Alanine_and_Aspartate", "Aminosugar", "Ascorbate_and_Aldarate", "Carnitine", "Ceramides", "Creatine", "Diacylglycerol", "Dipeptide", "Dipeptide_Derivative", "Disaccharides_and_Oligosaccharides", "Eicosanoid", "Endocannabinoid", "Fatty_Acid(Acyl_Carnitine)", "Fatty_Acid(Acyl_Glycine)", "Fatty_Acid,_Amino", "Fatty_Acid,_Branched", "Fatty_Acid,_Dicarboxylate", "Fatty_Acid,_Dihydroxy", "Fatty_Acid,_Monohydroxy", "Fatty_Acid_(Acyl_Choline)", "Fatty_Acid_(Acyl_Glutamine)", "Fatty_Acid_(also_BCAA)", "Fatty_Acid_Synthesis", "Fibrinogen_Cleavage_Peptide", "Fructose,_Mannose_and_Galactose", "Gamma-glutamyl_Amino_Acid", "Glutamate", "Glutathione", "Glycerolipid", "Glycine,_Serine_and_Threonine", "Glycogen", "Glycolysis,_Gluconeogenesis,_and_Pyruvate", "Guanidino_and_Acetamido", "Hemoglobin_and_Porphyrin", "Histidine", "Inositol", "Ketone_Bodies", "Leucine,_Isoleucine_and_Valine", "Long_Chain_Fatty_Acid", "Lysine", "Lyso-phospho-ether", "Lysolipid", "Lysoplasmalogen", "Medium_Chain_Fatty_Acid", "Methionine,_Cysteine,_SAM_and_Taurine", "Mevalonate", "Monoacylglycerol", "Nicotinate_and_Nicotinamide", "Oxidative_Phosphorylation", "Pantothenate_and_CoA", "Pentose", "Phenylalanine_and_Tyrosine", "Phospholipid", "Plasmalogen", "Polyamine", "Polypeptide", "Polyunsaturated_Fatty_Acid_(n3_and_n6)", "Primary_Bile_Acid", "Purine,_(Hypo)Xanthine/Inosine_containing", "Purine,_Adenine_containing", "Purine,_Guanine_containing", "Pyrimidine,_Cytidine_containing", "Pyrimidine,_Orotate_containing", "Pyrimidine,_Thymine_containing", "Pyrimidine,_Uracil_containing", "Riboflavin", "Secondary_Bile_Acid", "Short_Chain_Fatty_Acid", "Sphingolipid", "Steroid", "Sterol", "TCA_Cycle", "Tocopherol", "Tryptophan", "Urea_cycle;_Arginine_and_Proline", "Vitamin_A", "Vitamin_B6"), class = "factor"), BMI_beta = c(0.2382, -0.313, 0.1238, 0.3035, -0.00982), SAT_beta = c(-0.02409, -1.9751, 0.4095, 0.4861, 0.3293), VAT_beta = c(0.9418, -2.2204, 0.6805, 0.7083, 0.01597), VSR_beta = c(0.2469, -0.2354, 0.05539, 0.01337, -0.04353)), .Names = c("Sub_Pathways", "BMI_beta", "SAT_beta", "VAT_beta", "VSR_beta"), row.names = c(NA, 5L), class = "data.frame") On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/09/2017 9:47 AM, greg holly wrote: > >> Hi all; >> >> I have data at 734*22 dimensions with rows and columns names are >> non-numeric.When I convert this data into matrix then all values show up >> with quotes. Then when I use >> x1= noquotes(x) to remove the quotes from the matrix then non-numeric row >> names remain all other values in matrix disappear. >> >> Your help is greatly appreciated. >> >> > > Matrices in R can have only one type. If you start with a dataframe and > any columns contain character data, all entries will be converted to > character, and the matrix will be displayed with quotes. > > When you say all values disappear, it sounds as though you are displaying > strings containing nothing (or just blanks). Those will be displayed as "" > normally, but if the matrix is marked to display without quotes, they are > displayed as empty strings, so it will appear that nothing is displayed. > > You can see the structure of the original data using the str() function, > e.g. str(x) should display types for each column. > > If this isn't enough to explain what's going on, please show us more > detail. For example, show us the result of > > y <- x[1:5, 1:5] > dput(y) > > both before and after converting x to a matrix. > > Duncan Murdoch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.