[R] Data Import to R

[theo]

i think you can set: options(stringsAsFactor=FALSE)  which will apply
globally or use read.csv(..., stringsAsFactor=FALSE) when imporing.
have a look at the documentation ?read.csv
good luck.

On 11/14/2014 09:44 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Nov 13, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Ramesh Gautam wrote:
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>> While importing .csv files into R, all data are converted to factor-by
>> default. But, how can I preserve the original format of the data like
>> numeric to numeric, integer to integer, character to character etc while
>> importing from csv to R environment.
>>
>> I tried several ways, no thing helps. I used 'stringsAsFactor = FALSE'
>> command, it did convert all data to characters. But, I wanted to preserve
>> the numeric data to be in integer or double.
> 
> Use colClasses. And if that hint is not enough then post an example to work with.
>>
>> Any idea? examples?
>>
>> Thanks
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