Thanks everyone... the as.character(fileLines[1][1]) solution worked well...
Factors??? the treatment is so far away from what I know. Cool though... On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:14 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 >> > . > > . > >> >> 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? >> > > You already did access that element directly. You were given a bit more > information than you expected but the value of fileLines[1,1] is "AB" and > you were also advised that such value was one of 29 possible values for the > particular factor set of which it is a member. > > > -- > David > > >> Nick >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
