Check you input data. You have some non-numeric characters in columns where
you are expecting numerics.
The parameter is
stringsAsFactors=FALSE
You had it spelt wrong. After reading in your data, do the conversion to
numeric and then examine which locations contain NA; this will point you to
the problem line in your input. Also if you use 'colClasses', I think it
will error the offending line.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:21 PM, vincent.deluard <
vincent.delu...@trimtabs.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>
>
> Thanks for responding so quickly.
>
>
>
> So I tried:
>
>
>
> Test2[1:3,1:3])
>
> 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 3 variables:
>
> $ Date : Factor w/ 2480 levels "A UN Equity",..: 1033 2396 613
>
> $ X4.20.2010: Factor w/ 1994 levels "0.24","0.33",..: 953 497 1814
>
> $ X4.19.2010: Factor w/ 1957 levels "0.24","0.33",..: 933 486 1779
>
>
>
> But I am not sure how to interpret it.
>
>
>
> The stringAsFactors = False option did not work either.
>
>
>
> > Test2 <- read.table('Test2.csv', sep=",", header=TRUE,
> stringAsFactors=FALSE)
>
> Error in read.table("Test2.csv", sep = ",", header = TRUE, stringAsFactors
> = FALSE) :
>
> unused argument(s) (stringAsFactors = FALSE)
>
>
>
> If you want to look at it, I attach a section of my data.
>
>
>
> Right now if I type:
>
> > Test2[2,2]+1
>
> Which should return 19.72
>
>
>
> I get
>
> [1] NA
>
> Warning message:
>
> In Ops.factor(Test2[2, 2], 1) : + not meaningful for factors
>
>
>
> Your help is SO appreciated!
>
>
>
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>
> Vincent Deluard
>
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> From: John Kane-2 [via R] [mailto:
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> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 6:51 PM
> To: vincent.deluard
> Subject: Re: / Operator not meaningful for factors
>
>
>
> I think that you are correct. R has the annoying habit of converting
> character data to factors when you don't want it
> to while it is importing data. This is because the in the option
> "stringsAsFactors" is set to TRUE for some weird
> historical reasons.
>
> Try the command str(insert name of data) and see what happens. It should
> show you which columns of data are being
> treated as factors.
>
> You can convert the back to character or to numeric. See the FAQ Part 7
> "How do I convert factors to numeric? " or you
> can use the String as options command in the read.table to FALSE
>
> Something like this should work, I think, but it's not tested
> read.table("C:/rdata/trees.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 5/3/10, vincent.deluard <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>
> > From: vincent.deluard <[hidden email]>
> > Subject: Re: [R] / Operator not meaningful for factors
> > To: [hidden email]
> > Received: Monday, May 3, 2010, 6:22 PM
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > This will sound very stupid because I just started using R
> > but I see you had
> > similar problems.
> >
> > I just loaded a very large dataset (2950*6602) from csv
> > into R. The format
> > is ticker=row, date=column.
> > Every time I want to compute basic operations, R returns
> > "In Ops.factor: not
> > meaningful for factors"
> >
> > I believe it is because R does not read the data as numbers
> > but I am not
> > sure. Can anybody help?
> >
> > Thanks!
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