Janet -
Try x2 <- as.numeric(as.character(x))
hist(x2)
I'm not a Windows user, so I can't test this before sending.
It might solve the problem, might not.
(Flame !! : This is just ONE MORE example of the difficulties
caused by the default behavior of read.table() to make things
into factors. I sincerely wish the default were to preserve
character data as character.)
- tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Janet Gannon wrote:
> I am reading a list of numbers from my clipboard, and have been
> successful, except I can't make a histogram as R doesn't recognize my
> variable as numeric. I know I need to use "as.is", but the specifics
> escape me.
>
> I have used x<-read.table("clipboard", header=F) to import from a txt
> file. How do make this numeric? Thanks, J.
>
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