[R] editing import data, strings

[jim holtman]

At least post the first 10 lines of the file so that we can see what
it is.  It may be that some of the data is enclosed in quotes, but it
is hard to tell without seeing the actual data.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, gaja <gajahorvat at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Regards.
>
> I'm a beginner in programing, so I have a basic question for you.
> If someone could help me please..
>
> I want to create a function, which will be able to export files from excel.
> I tried with
> a <- read.csv(file, sep =",", as.is = TRUE, row.names = 1, header = TRUE),
>
> .. but instead of numbers, it gives me strings for example: "299,311".
>
> I can handle this string for example:
> b <- "299,311"
> as.numeric(gsub(",", "", b))
> 299311
>
> Now, I´m interested how to inport it from that file,.
>
> I tried with
> a <- read.csv(file, sep =",", as.is = TRUE, row.names = 1, header = TRUE)
> a <- gsub(",", "", a)
> a <- as.numeric(a)
>
> But it doesn't work.
> I used search engine on forum, but didn't find any function that I could
> help with.
>
> I would be very gratefull if someone could help me.
>
> Gaja
>
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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