Re: [R] How to import data from a text file in R

2012-11-25 Thread John Kane
p@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to import data from a text file in R > > Hi, > > I'd like to import a 154x1 vector of a stock monthly returns from a text > (or > excel spreadsheet) into R. I need to work on this vector by calculating > mean, variance and use it for m

Re: [R] How to import data from a text file in R

2012-11-25 Thread Jim Holtman
read the 'intro to R' again and then ?scan ?read.table Sent from my iPad On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:29, dilo88 wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to import a 154x1 vector of a stock monthly returns from a text (or > excel spreadsheet) into R. I need to work on this vector by calculating > mean, variance an

[R] How to import data from a text file in R

2012-11-25 Thread dilo88
Hi, I'd like to import a 154x1 vector of a stock monthly returns from a text (or excel spreadsheet) into R. I need to work on this vector by calculating mean, variance and use it for more complex operations. What is the best function to do so? There are no headers, just 154 decimale numbers (so th