Hi, If you have a data.frame, perhaps this can help,
tc = textConnection("carat cut color clarity depth table price x y z 1 0.23 Ideal E SI2 61.5 55 326 3.95 3.98 2.43 2 0.21 Premium E SI1 59.8 61 326 3.89 3.84 2.31 3 0.23 Good E VS1 56.9 65 327 4.05 4.07 2.31 4 0.29 Premium I VS2 62.4 58 334 4.20 4.23 2.63 5 0.31 Good J SI2 63.3 58 335 4.34 4.35 2.75 6 0.24 'Very Good' J VVS2 62.8 57 336 3.94 3.96 2.48") h = read.table(tc,head=T) close(tc) str(h) 'data.frame': 6 obs. of 10 variables: $ carat : num 0.23 0.21 0.23 0.29 0.31 0.24 $ cut : Factor w/ 5 levels "Fair","Good",..: 5 4 2 4 2 3 $ color : Factor w/ 7 levels "D","E","F","G",..: 2 2 2 6 7 7 $ clarity: Factor w/ 8 levels "I1","SI2","SI1",..: 2 3 5 4 2 6 $ depth : num 61.5 59.8 56.9 62.4 63.3 62.8 $ table : num 55 61 65 58 58 57 $ price : int 326 326 327 334 335 336 $ x : num 3.95 3.89 4.05 4.2 4.34 3.94 $ y : num 3.98 3.84 4.07 4.23 4.35 3.96 $ z : num 2.43 2.31 2.31 2.63 2.75 2.48 h[ , !sapply(h[2,], is.numeric)] cut color clarity 1 Ideal E SI2 2 Premium E SI1 3 Good E VS1 4 Premium I VS2 5 Good J SI2 6 Very Good J VVS2 HTH, baptiste 2009/8/17 rajclinasia <r...@clinasia.com>: > > Hi everyone, > > After reading the external file into R it will become a R dataset. Now my > querry is i want to dispaly only character variables from that dataset. > please help me in this aspect. if possible send me the code. it will be very > helpful for us. > > Thank you in Advance. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Display-the-character-variables-in-a-dataset-in-R-tp25002163p25002163.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- _____________________________ Baptiste AuguiƩ School of Physics University of Exeter Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QL, UK http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag ______________________________________________ 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.