[R] Reading data in R-metrics

[Patrick Burns]

My suspicion is that there is some value
that R does not think is numeric, so the
column becomes a factor, and you are
seeing the codes for the factor.

Patrick Burns
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Kerpel, John wrote:
> Hi Folks!
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> I used the code below previously with no problems, but now I get:
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> DTB3<-read.table("C:\\Program
> Files\\R\\R-2.7.1\\DTB3.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",")
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>   
>> tail(DTB3)
>>     
>
>             DATE VALUE
>
> 14233 2008-07-23  1.56
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> 14234 2008-07-24  1.62
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> 14235 2008-07-25  1.71
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> 14236 2008-07-28  1.70
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> 14237 2008-07-29  1.69
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> 14238 2008-07-30  1.67
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>> DTB3<-as.timeSeries(DTB3)
>>     
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>> tail(DTB3)
>>     
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>            TS.1
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> 2008-07-23  100
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> 2008-07-24  106
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> 2008-07-25  115
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> 2008-07-28  114
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> 2008-07-29  113
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> 2008-07-30  111
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> What might be causing the values to change when I go from read.table to
> as.timeSeries?
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> Many thanks.
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> John  
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