[R] colClasses

[Roger D. Peng]

When using colClasses you need to specify the types of all the 
columns.  So assuming the other columns are numeric data, you could set

colClasses = c("character", "numeric", "character", "numeric", "numeric")

-roger

Kalaylioglu, Zeynep (IMS) wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to read a data frame from a text editor in to R. I want some
> of the columns to be read in as "character" not numeric.
> I figured that I can do that by using "colClasses" in  "read.table"
> command. However, I couldn't find out how to use 
> "colClasses". e.g. say I have 5 column in the data file. I want 1st and
> 3rd column to be read in as character. How can I define
> this using colClasses?  (or is there a better way to do what I want?)
>  
> Thanks.
> Zeynep
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