Re: [R] How to read numeric as text

See ?read.csv and read the part about colClasses. > X <- read.csv(textConnection("x1 ,x2,x3 + 10,20,30 + 11 ,22,35"), colClasses = c("character", "character", "numeric") + ) > str(X) 'data.frame': 2 obs. of 3 variables: $ x1: chr "10" "11 " $ x2: chr "20" "22" $ x3: num 30 35 > -Ista

[R] How to read numeric as text

Hi: If I want to read a file with read.table. I want x1 and x2 to be read as character and x3 as numeric. How to do this? Thanks. Satish x1 ,x2,x3 10,20,30 11 ,22,35 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLE