See ?read.csv
and read the part about colClasses. > X <- read.csv(textConnection("x1 ,x2,x3 + 10,20,30 + 11 ,22,35"), colClasses = c("character", "character", "numeric") + ) > str(X) 'data.frame': 2 obs. of 3 variables: $ x1: chr "10" "11 " $ x2: chr "20" "22" $ x3: num 30 35 > -Ista On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} <satish.vadlam...@fritolay.com> wrote: > Hi: > If I want to read a file with read.table. I want x1 and x2 to be read as > character and x3 as numeric. How to do this? Thanks. > Satish > > > x1 ,x2,x3 > 10,20,30 > 11 ,22,35 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.