I'm struggling to find any help on this seemingly simple question - how does one read data with percentage (%) or currency (£,$ etc.) signs? When I try to read a data file which has any of those symbols in the data fields, they are read as characters rather than values. Is there a function or library which can deal with such values?
As an example, I use this sample from one of chinna's questions: Store Year Revenue abc 2010 $557889 def 2010 $697356 Similarly, for percentage values: Product Sale1 Sale2 Sale3 Sale4 Sale5 Sale6 Sale7 A 101.00% 93.00% 85.00% 65.00% 74.00% 102.00% 119.00% B 585.00% 484.00% 599.00% 653.00% 726.00% 882.00% 1035.00% C 18.00% 19.00% 25.00% 15.00% 31.00% 33.00% 33.00% D 23.00% 22.00% 31.00% 30.00% 36.00% 42.00% 49.00% E 35.00% 41.00% 49.00% 40.00% 48.00% 48.00% 53.00% F 19.00% 20.00% 33.00% 16.00% 20.00% 26.00% 28.00% ----- Try http://prettygraph.com Pretty Graph , the easiest way to make R-powered graphs on the web. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/How-to-read-percentage-and-currency-data-tp1567318p1567318.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.
