Thank you; that did it! Regards,
Tom On Oct 21, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Use read.table(myfile, header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE) where as.is=TRUE > causes read.table not to convert character data to factors. > > On 10/21/05, Thomas Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have what seems like an easy question to answer, but I'm struggling >> with it. >> >> I have a set of categorical data that I am reading in, looking >> something like: >> >> "category" "result" >> "A" .234 >> "B" .123 >> "C" .564 >> "D" -.452 >> "E" .112 >> "F" -.106 >> >> I'd like to plot this twice on two separate dot charts, once with the >> data ordered in ascending order by the "category" (character) column; >> the other graph ordered in descending order by the "result" (numeric) >> column. >> >> My trouble is this: if I read this in as a data frame, I can order it >> using something like data[order(d3$result),], but the "category" >> column seems to get converted to an integer data type, which then >> plots as numbers rather than letters on the dotchart(). If I read it >> in as separate vector columns using scan() and copy-and-paste, I >> don't know how to order both vectors together (such that "A" and .234 >> remain together). >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> > --- "Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person between Nixon and the White House." -John F. Kennedy ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
