[R] reading files with name columns and row columns

[shawin]

also the header =0

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Shawin Karim <shawinkarim at gmail.com> wrote:

> make row.name=0 instead to 1
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Bogdan Tanasa [via R] <
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> would appreciate a piece of help with a simple question: I am reading in
>> R
>> a file that is formatted as a matrix (an example is shown below, although
>> it is more complex, a matrix of 1000 * 1000 ):
>>
>> the names of the columns are 0, 10000, 40000, 80000, etc
>> the names of the rows are 0, 10000, 40000, 80000, etc
>>
>>            0 200000 400000
>> 0          0       0       0
>> 200000  0       0       0
>> 400000  0       0       0
>>
>> shall I use the command :
>>
>> y <- read.table("file",row.names=1, header=T)
>>
>> the results is :
>>
>> > y[1:3,1:3]
>>        X0 X200000 X400000
>> 0       0       0       0
>> 200000  0       0       0
>> 400000  0       0       0
>>
>> The question is : why R adds an X to the names of the columns eg X0,
>> X20000, X40000, when it shall be only 0, 20000, 40000 ? thanks !
>>
>> -- bogdan
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