[R] row naming

[Kevin Bartz]

The rownames of a data.frame are there for reference; they are not
considered a column in your data set and will not be included in any
analyses. The short answer as to whether you should try to remove them is
no. To read in the file, use read.table(file, header=F), as you probably
already discovered.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Herman, David
(NIH/NIMH)
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:35 AM
To: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: [R] row naming

Hello,
            If I have a four column data set (with thousands of rows), that
doesn't have a header, how do I load in this text file, WITHOUT a row added
for naming(i.e. numbering the rows, 1 2 3 4 5......).
Also, if a row is added for naming, then will it be actually included in the
data? That is, will that numbered row be included in analysis I run? (like
PCA)
 
 
Thanks!
 

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