[R] Beginners question

Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk
Fri Mar 19 15:22:13 CET 2004


1. Section 2.6 Character Vectors of R-intro (www.r-project.org -> Manual ->
Introduction to R)
2. Search the archives https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
which is appended as footnote on every R-help mail
3. help("paste")

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> .ch]On Behalf Of Koen Hufkens
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> Subject: [R] Beginners question
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> I've been messing around with coding functions in R and it just
> won't make
> sense to me.
> Running my analysis by hand on command line is fine and works but because
> of the repetitive nature of the job I would like to code a
> function for it.
>
> My problem:
>
> I would like to read in data from a file in my current working dir.
>
> so my code would look like:
>
> myanalysis <- function(sample, samplenr){
> sample.samplenr <- read.geodata("sample.samplenr", arg, arg etc.)
> sample.samplenr.results <- someanalysis(sample.samplenr)
> }
>
> problem is that charater values aren't interpretated as they should. Any
> tips and tricks? This should be fairly simple but I just can't find any
> reference to it. Most input values in functions in R are numeric or are
> strings to be interpretated with bolean statements but aren't handled as
> input variable perse.
>
> Suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated,
> Koen.
>
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