Hi Nick,
Your first column is being stored as a factor. You can either take
care when creating the matrix to keep the values in this column as
characters, or you might want to convert the result using
as.character().
HTH,
Tom
On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
Consider the following....
fileLines
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8
1 AB 20091224 156.0 156.0 154.00 154.00 55 1198
2 AB.C 20091224 156.0 156.0 156.00 156.00 0 0
3 ABF10 20091224 156.0 156.0 156.00 156.00 55 444
4 ABH10 20091224 156.0 156.0 156.00 156.00 0 749
5 ABH11 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
6 ABH12 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
7 ABK10 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 5
8 ABK11 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
9 ABN10 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
10 ABN11 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
11 ABV10 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
12 ABV11 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
13 ABZ10 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
14 ABZ11 20091224 157.2 157.2 157.20 157.20 0 0
15 RS 20091224 395.0 395.0 381.42 381.42 12918 100618
16 RS.C 20091224 395.0 399.1 395.00 398.70 1680 0
17 RSF10 20091224 395.0 399.1 395.00 398.70 2277 3081
18 RSF11 20091224 420.3 420.3 420.30 420.30 50 203
19 RSF12 20091224 415.5 415.5 415.50 415.50 0 0
20 RSH10 20091224 401.1 403.9 399.50 403.60 9925 79548
21 RSH11 20091224 419.2 419.2 419.20 419.20 0 193
22 RSK10 20091224 406.9 409.9 406.40 409.90 264 5769
23 RSK11 20091224 415.5 415.5 415.50 415.50 0 0
24 RSN10 20091224 414.7 415.2 410.00 415.20 189 6391
25 RSN11 20091224 415.5 415.5 415.50 415.50 0 2
26 RSX10 20091224 414.9 417.9 413.00 417.30 213 5431
27 RSX11 20091224 415.5 415.5 415.50 415.50 0 0
28 WF 20091224 363.0 363.0 363.00 363.00 0 0
29 WW 20091224 152.0 152.0 152.00 152.00 0 0
attributes (fileLines)
$names
[1] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" "V5" "V6" "V7" "V8"
$class
[1] "data.frame"
$row.names
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24
25
[26] 26 27 28 29
fileLines[1,2]
[1] 20091224
As expected!
fileLines[1,3]
[1] 156
As expected!
fileLines[1,1]
[1] AB
29 Levels: AB AB.C ABF10 ABH10 ABH11 ABH12 ABK10 ABK11 ABN10
ABN11 ... WW
Doh!
How do I access the "AB" element directly?
Nick
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