[R] Reconstruct array dataset

marcg mdgi at gmx.ch
Wed Nov 21 15:45:18 CET 2007


This was my intention, but I'm not able to read it in as a vector (because i don't know the function, neither I can convert the read in table to a vector and then to matrix or directly.

What did I miss or where do I have to look up?

thanks alot

marc
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> Datum: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:17:41 -0000
> Von: "Rob Robinson" <rob.robinson at bto.org>
> An: "\'marcg\'" <mdgi at gmx.ch>
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> Betreff: RE: [R] Reconstruct array dataset

> Can you not read it into a single vector and then use as.matrix to shape
> it
> into a an appropriate sized matrix?
> Cheers
> rob
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> > Subject: [R] Reconstruct array dataset
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> > Hi there
> > 
> > I have an interesting problem:
> > 
> > My csv file is of array dimensions [12,50], but it was saved 
> > the wrong way: there should be only 11 colums. What happens 
> > now if I read it into R is that the whole data set is shifted 
> > ( in the first row, the last column contains already the 
> > first value of the supposed second row and so on...)
> > 
> > how can I tell R to switch after 11 read values to the next 
> > row, taking the value from column 12 as first in the new row 
> > (for row 3 the two second last of the upper row etc...)
> > 
> > Thanks for suggestions
> > 
> > marc
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