[R] trouble in (scan -- read.table)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"hkimscil" <hkimscil at scils.rutgers.edu> writes:

> I am importing the data into a matrix test1, using scan.
> > test1<-matrix(scan("test.data"),nrow=10,ncol=15)
> 
> Then, I do the same thing with read.table
> > test2<-as.matrix(read.table("test.data"))
> 
> Now, test1 and test2 are different (test2 is the correct one).

You need byrow=TRUE in matrix()

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