Hello again, I generally use Clipboard to load data into R from Excel using the read.delim() function. In most cases, my data after loading looks like below:
myData <- structure(list(V1 = structure(c(3L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "2", "a"), class = "factor"), V2 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("", "34", "4", "b"), class = "factor"), V3 = structure(c(3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "4", "c"), class = "factor"), V4 = structure(c(3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("", "4", "d"), class = "factor"), V5 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("", "4", "7", "f"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("V1", "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -5L)) > myData V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 a b c d f 2 2 4 7 3 4 34 4 5 2 4 4 Now I want to put this data in a Matrix class with all elements are character. So tried this : > as.character(myData) [1] "c(3, 2, 1, 1, 2)" "c(4, 3, 1, 2, 1)" "c(3, 1, 1, 1, 2)" "c(3, 1, 1, 2, 1)" "c(4, 3, 1, 1, 2)" This looks funny and does not conform the original data. Can somebody point me what would be right way to put it into Matrix? Thanks and regards, ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.