[R] about data problem

[lily li]

Thanks. Then what should I do to solve the problem?

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> I suppose you can do what works for your data, but I wouldn't recommend
> na.rm=TRUE because it hides problems rather than clarifying them.
>
> If in fact your data includes true NA values (the letters NA or simply
> nothing between the commas are typical ways this information may be
> indicated), then read.csv will NOT change from integer to factor
> (particularly if you have specified which markers represent NA using the
> na.strings argument documented under read.table)... so you probably DO have
> unexpected garbage still in your data which could be obscuring valuable
> information that could affect your conclusions.
> --
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On September 20, 2016 3:11:42 PM PDT, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I reread the data, and use 'na.rm = T' when reading the data. This time
> >it
> >has no such problem. It seems that the existence of NAs convert the
> >integer
> >to factor. Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Jianling Fan <fanjianling at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Add the "stringsAsFactors = F"  when you read the data, and then
> >> convert them to numeric.
> >>
> >> On 20 September 2016 at 16:00, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Yes, it is stored as factor. I can't check out any problem in the
> >> original
> >> > data. Reread data doesn't help either. I use read.csv to read in
> >the
> >> data,
> >> > do you think it is better to use read.table? Thanks again.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> This indicates that your Discharge column has been
> >stored/converted as
> >> >> a factor (run str(df) to verify and check other columns).  This
> >> >> usually happens when functions like read.table are left to try to
> >> >> figure out what each column is and it finds something in that
> >column
> >> >> that cannot be converted to a number (possibly an oh instead of a
> >> >> zero, an el instead of a one, or just a letter or punctuation mark
> >> >> accidentally in the file).  You can either find the error in your
> >> >> original data, fix it, and reread the data, or specify that the
> >column
> >> >> should be numeric using the colClasses argument to read.table or
> >other
> >> >> function.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> >> > Hi R users,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have a problem in reading data.
> >> >> > For example, part of my dataframe is like this:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > df
> >> >> > month day year          Discharge
> >> >> >    3        1   2010                6.4
> >> >> >    3        2   2010               7.58
> >> >> >    3        3   2010               6.82
> >> >> >    3        4   2010               8.63
> >> >> >    3        5   2010               8.16
> >> >> >    3        6   2010               7.58
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Then if I type summary(df), why it converts the discharge data
> >to
> >> >> levels? I
> >> >> > also met the same problem when reading some other csv files. How
> >to
> >> solve
> >> >> > this problem? Thanks.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Discharge
> >> >> > 7.58     :2
> >> >> > 6.4       :1
> >> >> > 6.82     :1
> >> >> > 8.63     :1
> >> >> > 8.16     :1
> >> >> >
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> >> >> >
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> >> >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
> >code.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> >> >> 538280 at gmail.com
> >> >>
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jianling Fan
> >> 樊建凌
> >>
> >
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