[R] Using 'cat' on data frame

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Gundala Viswanath wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have the following data frame:
>
>> raw.count
>                                    Var1
>                 Freq
> 1     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   707
> 2     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC    14
> 3     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT     3
>
> But why when printint it using 'cat', it doesn't print
> the desired string "AAA" ?
>
>> cat(raw.count$Var1, "\n")
> 1 2 3
>
> What's wrong with my cat command above.

"What's wrong" is that Var1 is a factor rather than a character  
vector. Veslot's answers provide the proper method for dealing with  
that situation.

-- 
David Winsemius
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> - Gundala Viswanath
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