[R] Problem reading in external data and assigning data.frames within R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Nathan Dieckmann <ndieckma at uoregon.edu> writes:

>   Hey there,
> 
>     I apologize if this is an irritatingly simple question ... I'm a
> new user.  I can't understand why R flips the sign of all data values
> when reading in external text files (tab delimited or csv) with the
> read.delim or read.csv functions.  The signs of data values also seem
> to be flipped after assigning a new data.frame from within R (xnew <--

If you think the assignment operator is "<--", then that could well be
the cause....

> edit(data.frame()).  What am I doing wrong?
> 
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
>              -- Nate    


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