[R] data import: strange experience

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi,

We don't know anything about your data or your file, so it's utterly
impossible to offer useful suggestions.

The very best thing you can do is condense your problem into a
reproducible example, with fake data if necessary. Otherwise you're
limited by the ability of the list to guess what you're looking at,
and our track record with that is spotty.


Sarah

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, SH <emptican at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> I had some strange experience in importing data.  I wonder if anyone of you
> had the same problem before and would greatly appreciate your suggestion in
> advance.
>
> The original data set in excel format.
>
> Here is a brief summary of the procedure I did:
> 1. I saved the original excel data as csv and txt formats, separately.
> 2. I imported two data using the following codes.  There were no error
> messages.
> dftxt = read.table('df.txt',header=T, sep='\t')
> dfcsv = read.csv('df.csv',header=T, sep=',')
> 3. When I checked data with 'str', I found that factor levels of a variable
> were different each other.
> Levels of dftxt were less than those of dfcsv (48 vs 52).
> 4. So, I checked 'df.txt' file and found that the missing levels were still
> there, i.e., there is a no problem in text file.  I suspect that something
> happened when I imported it into R.
>
> Since there was no errors in importing the file into R, I do not have an
> idea where to start to fix it.  Do you have any suggestion?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> SH
>

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Sarah Goslee
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