Works fine for me. What do you object to in the following? Calling the above df "d",
> dm <- as.matrix(d) > dm Sub_Pathways BMI_beta SAT_beta VAT_beta 1 "Alanine_and_Aspartate" " 0.23820" "-0.02409" " 0.94180" 2 "Alanine_and_Aspartate" "-0.31300" "-1.97510" "-2.22040" 3 "Alanine_and_Aspartate" " 0.12380" " 0.40950" " 0.68050" 4 "Alanine_and_Aspartate" " 0.30350" " 0.48610" " 0.70830" 5 "Alanine_and_Aspartate" "-0.00982" " 0.32930" " 0.01597" VSR_beta 1 " 0.24690" 2 "-0.23540" 3 " 0.05539" 4 " 0.01337" 5 "-0.04353" > dimnames(dm) [[1]] [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" [[2]] [1] "Sub_Pathways" "BMI_beta" "SAT_beta" "VAT_beta" [5] "VSR_beta" > dm <- noquote(dm) > dm Sub_Pathways BMI_beta SAT_beta VAT_beta VSR_beta 1 Alanine_and_Aspartate 0.23820 -0.02409 0.94180 0.24690 2 Alanine_and_Aspartate -0.31300 -1.97510 -2.22040 -0.23540 3 Alanine_and_Aspartate 0.12380 0.40950 0.68050 0.05539 4 Alanine_and_Aspartate 0.30350 0.48610 0.70830 0.01337 5 Alanine_and_Aspartate -0.00982 0.32930 0.01597 -0.04353 > dimnames(dm) [[1]] [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" [[2]] [1] "Sub_Pathways" "BMI_beta" "SAT_beta" "VAT_beta" [5] "VSR_beta" Perhaps you need to read ?noquote or ?matrix. -- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:20 AM, greg holly <mak.hho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > [[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.