[R] problems with read.csv

[Ista Zahn]

Superficially, one answer is

indata <- read.csv("/home/data_new.csv", colClasses="character")

but I'm not sure that's what you want...

-Ista

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Fang (Betty) Yang <fang.yang at ualberta.ca> wrote:
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> I'd like to ask help on R code to get the same results as the following
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>>indata<-importData("/home/data_new.csv")
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>>indata[1:5,4]
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> [1] 0930 1601 1006 1032 1020
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> I tried the following R code:
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>> indata<-read.csv("/home/data_new.csv")
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>> indata[1:5,4]
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> [1]  930 1601 1006 1032 1020
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> I'd like the first one to be 0930, too.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Betty
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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
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