Hi, I have the same problem as Wong.
I have a csv file that contains weather observation (rows) by days (in columns). I open using: > temp = read.csv("Weather.csv", sep=",") and read: X X1.Jan X2.Jan X3.Jan X4.Jan 1 Min 2 3 4 1 2 Max 6 10 8 6 3 Forecast Min 3 1 1 3 4 Forecast Max 8 7 4 9 If I type mean(temp[2,2:3]) I get X1.Jan X2.Jan 6 10 The same command on > y = matrix(1:21, ncol=7) > mean(y[2,2:3]) [1] 6.5 works because the data is in a matrix. So how do I convert the data from my csv file into a matrix? I tried as.matrix but it did not help. Many many thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-table-or-read-csv-without-row-index-tp883594p2131537.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.