On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Dear R People: Suppose I have the following in a file: 1 1.171504 1.010070 2 -0.9317064 1.860900 3 -0.06522837 0.6561147 4 -1.817026 0.02619137 5 1.426983 0.5995691 6 -0.2844911 1.155561 7 -0.6920972 0.7633124 8 0.3129615 5.121108 I want to use read.table to bring it in and I want the first column to be a factor. Is there a way to set up read.table such that the first column is a factor and the others are numeric, please?
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