Hi,
I would like to store some text and decimal values in the following
form:
name dec.val dec.val ... dec.val
name dec.val dec.val ... dec.val
...
name dec. val dec.val ... dec.val
To do so, I created a matrix of the necessary size (x row per y cols)
with the command
matrixname <- matrix(0,x,y)
and proceeded to fill in the matrix with information drawn from a
data frame.
The problem is that the resulting matrix only has integers at the end
of the filling process.
When I ask:
class(dataframename[i,j])
The answer is "factor"
What is the best way of solving the problem. Should I use a data
structure other than a matrix? Or should I make the elements be a
different class (other than "factor") when I assign them to the matrix?
Thanks for any help!
G.
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